proxy authentication in system settings but with a twist

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We have a password policy that enforces the users to use special characters in their passwords. Hence some passwords will be Gt4@gj#k for example.

Now to specify the system wide proxy settings (Why isn't this done more intuitively like for instance the way it was done in synaptic; and why is synaptic not included by default anymore either...) you have to use username:password@host in the host field for authenticating proxies.

Our problem no is that some passwords have the @ sign in them so it breaks this simple system.

How can I employ a system wide proxy to work with apt and the system updater that allows real world passwords?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '11 at 07:51

If a program asks you to enter the proxy configuration as an http URL, you will need to follow the conventions for structuring URLs.

And that means you can not include an @ character in the user name or password components unless you encode them. Characters can be encoded in URLs as a percent sign followed by the hexadecimal representation of the code point.

So for the password Gt4@gj#k, you could represent it as Gt4%40gj%23k (the hash symbol is used to delimit the fragment portion of a URL, so it is best to encode it as well).

Thanks, it seem to have worked for most application. Yet some like apt does not work still. — Letholdrus, Oct 24 '11 at 11:38

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