Re: POP3 as URL

Max Waterman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to use a Mail::Box::Manager->open() method on a POP3 server 
> specified as an URL, in a similar way to the example :
>
> pop3://user:[email protected]:101
>
> unfortunately, both my 'user' and 'password' contain '@'. I suspect 
> usernames and, particularly, passwords containing ':' would also be a 
> problem.
>
> I see a comment about url-encoding the password, but my attempts to do 
> this failed.
>
> Can someone give me an example of encoding usernames and passwords so 
> that I can specify the server as a URL (it's so much cleaner, IMO)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Max.
>
>
try url-encoding those chars (ex %2e ) with approp value replacing the 2e