Linux – ftp: special characters in password

ftplinuxspecial characters

I need to execute this command

wget -r ftp://$USER:$PASSWORD@$SITE/

But first since there were some special characters (such as '!?') within the PASSWORD I had some problems that I solved by escaping them with '\'..

Now I am facing the problem that special character don't work with the ftp command…(here)

At the moment I get this:

Bad port number

This is because also some numbers are present within the PASSWORD, I tried to single-quote, but without success..

How can I solve, if I would not change the password?

On terminal, on Debian.

Best Answer

Use the --ftp-user and --ftp-password parameters instead of encoding it into the URL

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Windows – Default installed ftp client on windows

You can authenticate with Internet Explorer by including the credentials in the URL, however it will prompt for username and password if you don't enter them.

ftp://username:password@host.example.com/path/to/files

I haven't tried it but I would expect a non-standard port to be specified in the usual way

ftp://username:password@host.example.com:10021/path/to/files

You can specify a port on the command line like this

C:\> ftp
ftp> open host.example.com 10021

UPDATE: The Windows explorer address bar usually shows drive letter and path (e.g. C:\somewhere) but you can type in a URL like those above, it can then be used as a drag&drop target for uploading a file to an FTP server.

Firefox – How to tell Firefox to ignore unprintable characters

0096 is most likely an ASCII reference to the ' char which can be displayed within HTML as `

Looking at your link however the HTML looks normal and there is no reference to –

...

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...

Firefox should have no issues displaying the dash glyph as I just tested on 3.6.*...

<html>
    <head>
        <body>
            My dash is &ndash;
        </body>
    </head>
</html>

...copy and paste the above code in a test document and name it test.html and open it up in Firefox. It should display your dash without any problems.

EDIT: As pointed out by Dave 0x96 is the ANSI equivalent of en dash. With this understanding it appears that this is a parsing issue with regards to the doctype specifiction within the page itself. Check out this thread.

You could extract the HTML and modify the doctype to see if this indeed where the issue is stemming from. It is most likely a cross between encoded values ie...ANSI -> Unicode; as Unicode the value is a non-printable char.

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