Escape character for Proxy Credentials to selenium-manager

[David Madl]

Dear Selenium Users,

How can I pass an @ character (at sign) in a Proxy password to selenium-manager?

I suppose that the “proxy” config file value, as well as the SE_PROXY environment variable, are split upon the : and @ characters.

How can these be escaped?

Thanks,
David

[princila roseline]

To pass an "@" character (at sign) in a proxy password to Selenium-Manager, you can escape it using URL encoding. In URL encoding, the "@" character is represented as "%40".

Here's how you can do it:

1. In your proxy configuration file or when setting the SE_PROXY environment variable, replace "@" with "%40" in the proxy password.

For example, if your original proxy password is "pass...@example.com", you would represent it as "password%40example.com".

2. Selenium-Manager should then interpret "%40" as "@" when parsing the proxy configuration.

Here's an example of how you might set the SE_PROXY environment variable with the encoded proxy password:

perl
SE_PROXY=http://username:password%40exam...@proxy.example.com:8080

By using URL encoding, you can ensure that special characters like "@" are properly interpreted by Selenium-Manager without causing parsing errors.

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[David Madl]

Dear Jo,

Thank you for the tip. However, passing an URL-encoded password did not work for me.

Is there an error in the example below?

set SE_PROXY=http://proxy_user:proxy_p%50ss...@proxy.local:8080
selenium-manager.exe --browser edge

...

error trying to connect: proxy authentication required

[Sir Jo]

What is %50 ?????

%50 is "P" !!!

remember that "@" is %40