How do I use a password that contains special characters with 'wget'?

Question

My FTP password has a colon; when I do a wget with my user name and password, it keeps complaining that a "bad port number" is being used. Is there a solution? I tried the : trick but did not help.

Answer 1

Use --password=password or --ftp-password.

Answer 2

You need to encode special characters in your password using URL encoding. For example, if the user is "user1" and the password "12#j" the resulting URL would look as follows:

user1:12%23j@myserver:port

Note, that I replaced the # character with its URL-code %23 .