Bug 68795 – wget fails to interpret ~# characters in ftp password

Bug 68795 - wget fails to interpret ~# characters in ftp password

Summary:	wget fails to interpret ~# characters in ftp password

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	wget (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	2002-07-14 07:34 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-07-14 07:34:28 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2002-07-14 07:34:24 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610

Description of problem:


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
use a command like wget ftp://username:secret#~word@www.website.co.uk/

where username is valid for the server and the password contains the # and ~ chars
	


Actual Results:  returns with 
--12:01:13--  ftp://username:*password*@www.website.co.uk/
           => `.listing'
Resolving www.website.co.uk... done.
Connecting to www.website.co.uk[192.168.0.1]:21... connected.
Logging in as username ...
Login incorrect.



Expected Results:  successful login and download of files

Additional info:

this still happens if the #~ chars are urlencoded

upgrading wget to GNU Wget 1.8.2 solves the problem

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-07-15 10:19:27 EDT

1.8.2 is what is in rawhide.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-07-16 16:05:48 EDT

it's still broken in 7.3 though !!??

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