How to escape special characters in password?

Question

I am trying to install SVN in Ubuntu. My network proxy has a password. In apt.conf when i do:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://username:pass@word@proxy_server:proxy_port";

It's not working . My question is how can I escape @ in pass@word? I tried many combinations but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

You need escape the first @ With \ or use use its Hex ASCII value %40

Try:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://username:pass\@word@proxy_server:proxy_port";

or

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://username:pass%40word@proxy_server:proxy_port";