username for HTTP proxy contains "at symbol" (@)

[jrubio]

Hello,

In my company access to Internet is through a HTTP Proxy which requires authentication.

Besides the username contains the "at symbol" (@).

According to documentation the syntax for setting proxies in VLC is: http://[user[:password]@]proxy.example.com:port/

The problem is that the first @ is in the username, then all the rest is considered address, and therefore the connection fails.

Is there any other way to specify the username and password?

Thank you!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That's the standard URI scheme for HTTP, this is not a VLC problem.

In principle, you need to URI-encode the username, but I am not sure if VLC supports this.

[jrubio]

Hello,

Coding the '@' as %40 in username makes vlc to parse Ok each token, but my Company's Proxy does not understand the username coded this way (foo1%40foo2, instead of foo1@foo2).

• Does anyone know any another workaround for this?
• Is there any possibility that VLC have a special field/environment variable for proxy username instead or besides of using the current syntax?

Thank you!

-- Julio Rubio

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

There is the http_proxy variable, but I think you'll hit the same problem.

[jrubio]

Hello,

In the end I solved the question using two tricks:

1. Using wget to by-pass vlc proxy limitation when username contains the "at symbol" (@)
2. Using a pipe to pass the stream from wget to vlc, and indicating which codec/demux to use to decode data from the pipe (in my case aac or mp4a, it seems default is mp3)

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export http_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:8080 wget --proxy-user=foo1@foo2 --proxy-password=foo3 <URL> -O - | vlc - :demux=aac

I use Cygwin wget version because I had it already installed.

This is the shell script for launching my favorite radio with a few more optimizations:

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#!/bin/bash export http_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:8080 PATH=/cygdrive/c/Archivos\ de\ programa/VideoLAN/VLC:$PATH wget --proxy-user=foo1@foo2 --proxy-password=foo3 http://www.radiosuisseclassique.ch/live/aacp32.m3u -O - | head -n 1 | wget --proxy-user=foo1@foo2 --proxy-password=foo3 -i - -O - | vlc --no-qt-error-dialogs - :demux=aac

Regards