On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Stephan Lesher wrote:

> I'm running cURL from an AIX platform trying to connect to a windows based
> WS-FTP server forcing SSL and I'm having some issues. It appears to be
> having problems because the username has a @ in it.

Sorry, I drew the wrong conclusion and offered a fix that doesn't work! (-u
doesn't URL decode anything)

> $ curl --trace -n

This is the culprit. --trace takes an argument, the file name to which it
writes its trace log to. You called it -n here...

> $ curl --trace -u alphaftp21_at_christianacare:fTp$2763

... and here you called the file -u, and then there's an argument that isn't
an option that curl will treat as a host name:

> * gethostbyname(2) failed for christianacare:fTp763

... and it thinks it was a host name with a user name first, so it tried to
resolve the right part of the @-letter...

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