Problem with proxy manager.

[Ameet]

Whenever I am behind a proxy and I want to connect to internet, I supply my username and password to the proxy manager. Now this I observed with Synaptic, that whenever I am giving a password, which has special characters like '@' , '%' then there is a problem. The password and the proxy site cannot be resolved properly and the application cannot connect to the internet

Say my passwd is
pass@123

so when the proxy manager tries to resolve

username:pass@123@<proxy>:port

it generally takes 123@proxy as the prosy server's name and hence cant resolve it.

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Please add your Ubuntu version and the version of synaptic. Have you tried to escape the special character with a \ ?

[Ameet (ameet-nanda)]

My version of Ubuntu is Ubuntu 8.04 and my version of Synaptic is 0.61
Ubuntu 0

Thanks.
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:49 +0000, mcas wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this bug. Please add your Ubuntu version and the
> version of synaptic. Have you tried to escape the special character
> with a \ ?
>

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