setting proxy for apt-get

[James Gray]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 22:35, Peter Simpson wrote:
> On Thursday 08 Sep 2005 13:19, James Gray wrote:
> > I've never got this working properly (at all) if the password contains
> > special characters like !@#$%^&* etc.  I've tried escaping them with
> > back-slashes, putting the whole thing in single quotes - nadda.  If
> > anyone has a solution to this I'm all ears :)
>
> I presume that you must URL-encode the characters.
>
> e.g. a space would become %20
>
> What do you think?

I think you're 100% spot-on ;)  Works perfectly now.  Thank you.

Cheers,

James
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