Apt-get update with an @ in password error

Question

I want to update ubuntu 11.04 throught apt-get. So I added the following lines in apt.conf

export http_proxy=http://username:[email protected]:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://username:[email protected]/

export http_proxy=http://deepak:Deepak@[email protected]:3128

My question is: how do I insert special characters to a username or password?

For instance: my password for proxy is Deepak@123 and it is getting an error.

You can export proxy settings in `.bashrc`. In `apt.conf` you have to use [this](http://askubuntu.com/questions/34666/what-happened-to-etc-apt-apt-conf/43218#43218) — Nemo, Oct 18 '11 at 05:16

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '11 at 08:35

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You need to escape special characters. So place a \ in front of the @ like so:

export http_proxy=http://deepak:Deepak\@[email protected]:3128

Alernatively you can also use %40.

answered Sep 06 '11 at 08:35

Rinzwind

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Full list of HTML character codes http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/charstxt.html – BBK Dec 24 '13 at 11:15
An online encoder / decoder : http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ – Jean-Rémy Revy Sep 10 '14 at 16:06
inside /etc/apt/apt.conf %40 works – albfan Apr 07 '15 at 08:52
URL encoding from here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp worked for me, see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9282186/apt-get-behind-proxy-special-characters-in-username-and-password Tested on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. – AjayKumarBasuthkar Oct 27 '15 at 06:35

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 03 '12 at 08:36

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Click on

Dash home
Search for System Settings
Select Network
Select Network Proxy
Select Manual method
Set you proxy and port

Kudos You are Done if you set right

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answered Sep 11 '12 at 16:55

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score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 27 '15 at 07:38

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If your password or username contains @ you can percent-encode (also referred as URL encoding) it as %40 in the proxy url. For more special characters see here

edited Oct 27 '15 at 07:38

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answered Aug 19 '13 at 20:50

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 15 '18 at 13:57

Even more simple and Reliable!

General Syntax:

sudo {http,https,ftp}_proxy=http://<username>:<password>@<proxy_url/_proxyip>:<port>/ wget --timeout=5 --no-check-certificate http://<website_url>

Example:

[root@localhost ~]# sudo {http,https,ftp}_proxy=http://username:[email protected]:6050/ wget --timeout=5 --no-check-certificate http://google.com

{http,https,ftp}_proxy -> http, https, ftp urls. Seperated by comma.

--timeout=5 -> Connection to keep alive in seconds.

-no-check-certificate -> Ignore SSL / Certificate Verification.

--spider -> If you want to test the connectivity without downloading the file.

Notes:

Online Converter:

Replace special characters with its equivalent hexadecimal unicode. For a list of unicodes refer the website https://unicode-table.com (or) http://unicodelookup.com

Local Converter using Python:

Reference: conversion of password "p@s#w:E" to unicode will be as follows,

@ = %40
$ = %24
# = %23
: = %3A
p@s#w:E = p%40s%23w%3AE

Input:

[root@localhost ~]# python -c "import sys, urllib as enc; print enc.quote_plus(sys.argv[1])" "p@s#w:E"

Output:

p%40s%23w%3AE

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