Re: [Duplicity-talk] @ symbol in username on ftp connection url

[Michael Johnson]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Adam Houston wrote:

> Ok, so have been using Duplicity with the ftp backend.  Now I have  
> to switch to a different ftp server.  The username on the new server  
> has an address@hidden symbol in it and I have no control over this.  This makes  
> the connection url something like ftp://address@hidden@ftp.company.com 
>  --  I think this is breaking duplicity.   I took a look at the  
> backend.py file and it would appear that it won’t parse correctly  
> for this kind of string.  I am really not a python programmer but am  
> familiar with a number of other languages.
>
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle this situation?  I am  
> not familiar with the ftplib so I wanted to check to see if someone  
> was familiar with how the Duplicity code interacted with it before I  
> started trying to change anything.

Try escaping it with a backslash or enclosing that part in quotes.

-Michael

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