[vox-tech] Odd ncftp bug

[Mitch Patenaude]

On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 11:55 US/Pacific, Bill Kendrick wrote:

>> 6. strace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com
>
> Ah-hah!  Someone, somewhere, is using "%" as an escape character!

That's part of the URL spec.  %XX is used to encode a character that 
wouldn't be legal otherwise in that context, where XX is the hex for 
the ascii value of that character.  Sorry.. I don't remember that ascii 
value for "%" offhand, but there are a lot of utilities for 
encoding/decoding.

    -- Mitch