Clint Dilks wrote: > http_proxy understands the format <username>:<password>@<my > proxy>:<proxy port> so in this case the @ is probably being interpreted > as server identifier. I would try enclosing the user name in single > quotes or adding a \ before the @. If these do not work your only > option may be to contact the proxy admin and obtain a username without > the @ If putting '\@' to escape the at sign didn't work, have you tried using the URL escape code of '%40' to represent it? -- Brad Beyenhof, Systems Administrator UC San Diego, Laboratory of Cognitive Imaging 9500 Gilman Drive #0949, La Jolla, CA 92093-0949 phone: (858) 534-4108 email: bbeyenhof at ucsd.edu