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gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #130289
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Comment 1 for bug 130289

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Mark O'Donohue (mark-odonohue) wrote : Re: synaptic proxy password must not contain "@" sign

This also happens with entering using authentication via the gui proxy settings.

My understanding was that in apt.conf it should work if you URL encode the @ sign ie:

http_proxy=http://user:p%40ssword@server:9080

But entering this via the gui or by directly adding it to apt.conf did not work.

Using the gui with the above it would complain that "could not find host ssword@server" so somewhere there someone was URL decodign the string before splitting on the @ sign as well.

This was in a Ubuntu 7.10 installation