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Re: Couldn't resolve host name

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:09:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Alona Rossen wrote:

> We receive "Couldn't resolve host name" error on some of our UNIX and
> Windows boxes when trying to access specific URI.
>
> For example, one of our Windows boxes fails for
> "smtp://<my_login>@rogers.com:<my_pwd>@smtp.broadband.rogers.com:587",
> while this URI is accessible from a different box. Any suggestions?

There seems to be an extra @ letter in that URL within the user name field, is
that correct? It needs to be URL encoded as it has a magic meaning within
URLs: it separates the user+password field from the host name part.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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