[Duplicity-talk] @ symbol in username on ftp connection url

[Adam Houston]

Ok, so have been using Duplicity with the ftp backend.  Now I have to switch to a different ftp server.  The username on the new server has an ‘@’ symbol in it and I have no control over this.  This makes the connection url something like ftp://address@hidden@ftp.company.com --  I think this is breaking duplicity.   I took a look at the backend.py file and it would appear that it won’t parse correctly for this kind of string.  I am really not a python programmer but am familiar with a number of other languages.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle this situation?  I am not familiar with the ftplib so I wanted to check to see if someone was familiar with how the Duplicity code interacted with it before I started trying to change anything.

 

Thank you!

 

Adam Houston