I would like to set an environment variable containing the URL of my proxy server with my credentials, as in this blog post.
The problem I'm having is that my password contains an at symbol and I am not sure how to properly escape it:
SET HTTP_PROXY=http://username:p@assword@proxy.yourdomain.com:8080
How do I do this?
By the way, I realize setting an environment variable containing my credentials is a Very Bad Idea. I'm open to other suggestions that would allow me to use composer behind an authenticated proxy if anyone has one.
Best Answer
@
in the password as%40
, because@
is a delimiter.%
in theset
command so that the command interpreter doesn't even attempt to perform environment variable substitution. The^
character as an escape character is a convention that has been around from as far back as IBM's/Microsoft'scmd
for OS/2 1.x, and that is supported in Microsoft'scmd
on Windows NT — as well as in command interpreters such as TCC/LE — to this day.