Comment 1 for bug 109474

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Martin Packman (gz) wrote :

@ is not permitted *within* the userinfo, it delimits it from the host.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.1
  userinfo = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" )

Correct URL would be ftp://alanproject%<email address hidden>/

Suggest close as INVALID or turn it into "throw useful error on invalid URLs".