Problems with username or pass with colon when setting CURLOPT_USERPWD

Question

We are trying to use curl in PHP5 to login to a website using basic authentication.

Partial code is like this:

Answer 1

I looked up the implementation of extraction of CURLOPT_USERPWD in curl code, This is how its done There is a forward searh on the username-passwd string, looking for the ":" character. And then username and passwd are extracted (the string before : is username and the string after : is passwd)

So, as you would have guessed, if the username string contains a : character, all this will fail. However as the chances of the : character being as part of username are considerably less, this is not reported as a bug.

thanks