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Re: Problems with the % symbol

From: Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:12:15 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Jordi Mateu wrote:

> If you see in my password I have a "%" symbol, and when I run Curl, it seems
> not to read the "%" and it seems to read "password" not "pass%word".

You have to escape it to "%25" (hexadecimal for %).

Like escapeing space to %20 and other characters in a URL.

Curl doesn't help you with this (which mostly is good).

  // Kjell
Received on 2006-08-31