Re: GET with email-id:password
Byron Brummer (byron@omix.com)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:28:20 +0000 (GMT)
Karuppu Samy <karuppusamy@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> In one of my Perl scripts, I need to GET a url with my e-mail id and
> password attached in the format
>
> http://userid:password@www.somesite.com/...
>
> An example is
> http://samy@domain.com:XXXXX@www.somesite.com/...
>
> The @ in the e-mail id creates a problem - it is treated as the end of the
> userid:password combination and "domain..." is treated as the beginning of
> the url - instead of http://www"
>
> Can somebody help me in getting over this problem ?
Maybe encoding it will work?
http://samy%40domain.com:XXXXX@www.somesite.com/...
Or do the authentication manually.
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