Present also on rhel5 yum-3.2.22-40.el5 +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #770117 +++ Description of problem: when a proxy usrname such as "toto@org" is used, yum tries to use org as a proxy and fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum 3.2.29 and all previous. How reproducible: all the time Steps to Reproduce: 1.configure your proxy in the normal assistants (aka in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date or /etc/yum.conf) using the fields reserved for the username and password. (in up2date, proxy_user and proxy_password, in yum.conf proxy_username and proxy_password). the username *must* be using a "@" 2. attempt to use yum : yum check-update will do 3. it fails trying to reach a proxy that does not exist. debuging options are required to see the url used. Actual results: yum does not correctly encoded the @ in the username ; this causes a failure when trying to connect to a proxy (it will try to contact org). Expected results: yum uses the password and username defined in the proxy_username or proxyUser, etc. fields. Additional info: exists in fedora : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682412 can be worked around by using the following url format instead of the username and password format : http://toto%40org:password@proxy.fqdn:port it looks like yum does not encode the username appropriately. I suggest to not only map @ but also other strings that can cause issues ; a table of the content is available on kbase https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-67888 (internal)
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 845579 ***