HTTP basic authentication URL with “@” in password

Question

I\'m trying to set up some selenium tests to our staging server using Sauce Labs. It\'s behind a basic http auth, so theoretically I could set the selenium URL to http://u

Answer 1

You just need to encode special characters like that before passing them as part of the URL, so @ would need to be passed as %40, eg:

https://user:password%40www.example.com

(I typically use this - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ - for my en/decoding needs.)