At the moment you _can_ provide the user name with colons embedded in the URL if the colons are URL-encoded:

 http://user:password@example.com/

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** [bugs:#1375] --user optarg specced out insufficiently**
**Status:** open
**Created:** Thu May 22, 2014 10:59 AM UTC by Roman Neuhauser
**Last Updated:** Thu May 22, 2014 08:31 PM UTC
**Owner:** Steve Holme
i've read the man page, FAQ, appropriate parts of the manual, and i can't find what to do when my username or password contain colons.
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