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I have at the rate in the password (@) that I use to authenticate and use internet in my college. But to set proxy settings from the terminal we have to separate password and proxy host with @. Ubuntu is mistaking my @ in the password to this @.

Unfortunately I cannot change the password as the site, through which I can change by password, is down. And to set the proxy I did this: sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc in terminal and in the end of this file added this line 

export http_proxy=username:password@proxyhost:port/

with my details.

Jorge Castro
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    Did you try escaping it `\@` or putting it in quotation marks `"@"`? It's a bit hard to guess the context, e.g. the command, you're using the password in. – con-f-use Aug 13 '13 at 17:12
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    The handling of the http_proxy variable is performed by whatever utility you are trying to use (wget, curl, ...). You should file a bug report for the corresponding utility. – João Pinto Aug 17 '13 at 18:32
  • @con-f-use: the normal way of escaping in a URL would be `%40` rather than `\@`. There might be some tools that accept backslash escaping, but they aren't processing the URL correctly. – James Henstridge Aug 18 '13 at 01:03

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