Brad Beyenhof wrote: > 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? > I was really curious about this, so I googled around a bit. I don't know about the support in the environment variables, but from what I'm reading, the "%40" encoding should definitely work if you use the proxy variables in yum.conf, ie: proxy=http://proxyserver.somedomain.local:portnum/ proxy_username=username%40stuffafteratsymbol proxy_password=password This should at a minimum be true for CentOS 4.5 since I cracked open the python on my box to see exactly what the proxy code was doing :) -Shawn