On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:12:28 +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to put a file to an ftp site: > > wput -v file.txt ftp://USER:passw...@foo.com/public_html/pub/ > > file.txt is just a normal plain text file. > > But it says: > > parse-error in escaped character: is not a hexadecimal character > > and it doesn't uploads the file :S > > what am I missing?
If you have a percent sign in PASSWORD then it will be interpreted as an escape character that is to be followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number that encodes one character (i.e. the next two characters have to be members of the set [0-9a-fA-F]): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding Try to encode all special characters in PASSWORD according to RFC 3986. For example, if PASSWORD is ":secret%text@" then the encoded version is "%3Asecret%25text%40". If you have the liburi-perl package installed then you can use perl to do the conversion of all special characters (see "man URI::Escape"): $ perl -e 'use URI::Escape; $encoded = uri_escape(":secret%text@"); print "$encoded\n";' %3Asecret%25text%40 -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
