Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am encoding the username and password to the url and use it with wget.

I.e

Code:

wget ftp://username:password@myserver.com/test.mp3

However this does not work if the password contains @ character. if the password contains @, then the encoded url becomes

Code:

wget ftp://username:pass@word@myserver.com/test.mp3

and wget eventually try to resolve 'word@myserver.com' instead of myserver.com.

I even tried to use --ftp-user=user, --ftp-password=password but my wget version does not support these options.
Any idea how can I overcome this?

Thanks,
Anand

you try placing it in the .wgetrc file or url encording replacing @ with %40, otherwise, i dont think there is a way