curlftpfs doesn't work for a username with a "@"

Question

My hosting company makes all my usernames with a "@" in them.

curlftpfs user="user@domain.com:pass" ftp://ftp.domain.com/ ~/domain/

For some reason I get in response

Error connecting to ftp: Couldn't resolve host 'domain.com:pass'

I think that it's trying to connect to user@domain.com without the password
(because of the @ sign)

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 23 '11 at 06:48

cURL is interpreting everything after the first @ sign as the domain to connect to. What you need to do is either fool cURL into working without the first @ sign, or find some other way of telling CurlFtpFS your username.

The former may possibly be done by replacing the @ with the URL encoded %40 - it may or may not work - try it and see.

The other way can be to see if there is a --username or --user parameter to CurlFtpFS that can be used instead of including it in the URL. I am not familiar enough with CurlFtpFS to know if there is or not off hand. The manual pages should tell you if there is or not.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '11 at 11:26

I'm wondering if you are missing the -o switch, so that your example above of:

curlftpfs user="user@domain.com:pass" ftp://ftp.domain.com/ ~/domain/

should be:

curlftpfs -o user="user@domain.com:pass" ftp://ftp.domain.com/ ~/domain/

Does that work?

curlftpfs doesn't work for a username with a "@"

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