From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Apr  9 22:23:49 2012
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835DB106566C;
	Mon,  9 Apr 2012 22:23:49 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from julian@freebsd.org)
Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6798FC0C;
	Mon,  9 Apr 2012 22:23:49 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (c-67-180-24-15.hsd1.ca.comcast.net
	[67.180.24.15]) (authenticated bits=0)
	by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q39MNlPb029771
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO);
	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:23:48 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from julian@freebsd.org)
Message-ID: <4F83619E.5060607@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:24:30 -0700
From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US;
	rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
References: <20120409205051.GA27392@sandvine.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120409205051.GA27392@sandvine.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percent-encoding for libfetch
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:23:49 -0000

On 4/9/12 1:50 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
> Libfetch supports a username and password in a FTP or HTTP URL, but lacks
> a method to specify '@' or ':' there, as they're used as URL component
> separators.  I discovered this issue because I have an FTP server that
> uses an email address as the username, and I can't use fetch(1) or
> libfetch against it.
>
> The attached patch adds decoding of percent-encoded usernames and
> passwords, in order to use a URL like
> ftp://foo%40example.com:password@host:port/file.bar .
>
> Please review.  I plan to commit in the next few days.

could you not parse the @ differently depending upon where it is?

others must have covered this problem..

> -Ed
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"