Bug 519130 – Proxy settings documentation lacks the info about transforming username/password if it contains special symbols

• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description godevilove 2014-08-05 12:10:20 UTC]

My password for proxy authorization contains symbols. Some of those symbols are used as delimiters to divide username from password and from proxy's address.

There's not a single word in documentation on that topic.
Shall those symbols be transformed into %hex values or escaped with "\"?

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2014-08-17 16:45:43 UTC]

I think escaping is the best solution here.

Can you try and give feedback on this? I don't have a proxy to test this out with.

[Comment 2 godevilove 2014-08-18 07:12:08 UTC]

(In reply to Sven Vermeulen from comment #1)
> I think escaping is the best solution here.
> 
> Can you try and give feedback on this? I don't have a proxy to test this out
> with.

Turned out escaping doesn't work. But transforming keys into their %hex values worked.

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2014-08-18 10:07:57 UTC]

Is there a simple method to transform into the hexadecimal values?

Best would be through commands available on the installation media (such as bc or python) so we can take it up in the documentation.

[Comment 4 godevilove 2014-08-18 10:42:50 UTC]

I don't know. I'd ask on #[e-mail], but I'm permanently banned there by IP.

[Comment 5 nm (RETIRED) 2016-02-06 07:37:53 UTC]

if you have any specific instructions, they can be added to a separate wiki page, or submitted via the "discussion" tab on existing networking pages.