http_proxy password contains @ issue

When you try to set up an "http_proxy" with password which contains @, the set command won't work.

for example, if your proxy password is pass@word and you are trying to set up http_proxy using

set http_proxy="http://username:pass@word@server:port", then proxy won't set

 

To resolve this issue, you have to  percent-encode the special characters ie replace @ with %40

 set http_proxy="http://username:pass%40word@server:port"