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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:36:29 -0800
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Subject: Re: CouchDB: @ in username messing up curl
From: Stanley Iriele <siriele2x3@gmail.com>
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Yeah that's a funny case...I usually avoid doing that for that specific
reason... Why not base64 encode it and send the file in a formatted header
yourself instead of relying  on curl?...
On Nov 13, 2013 6:32 PM, "Hank Knight" <hknight555@gmail.com> wrote:

> The username is
> nlbdmobz@sharklasers.com
>
> And the password is
> password123
>
> Please test it:
> https://zqzqzqz555.couchappy.com/
>
> Putting the password in the middle of the username does NOT work.
>
> The real question relates to escaping the @.
>
> Believe me, I have spent quite a bit of time Googling this and found
> nothing.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 13, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Hank Knight <hknight555@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> What is wrong with this?
> >>
> >> curl -kX -u nlbdmobz@sharklasers.com:password123 POST \
> >> https://zqzqzqz555.couchappy.com/urls \
> >> -d "{}" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
> >>
> >> I get an error:
> >> curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'sharklasers.com:password123'
> >
> > Wrong syntax. It should be nlbdmobz:password123@sharklasers.com .
> >
> > The syntax is weird, but it=92s really not hard to find out how it work=
s.
> Try googling for [url password syntax] and the top few hits all look like
> good info.
> >
> > =97Jens
>

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