[Xymon] xymonnet not working for basic authentication with # in password

On 11/3/2017 1:19 PM, Max Xu wrote:

I am have something like httpstatus;https://admin_name:passwdXY#Z at abc.com/abc;200 in hosts.cfg.

It would not surprise me that the # character breaks the parser. The syntax of this line has evolved over the decades, while remaining backwardly compatible. It is a truly spectacular mashup of semicolons, spaces, quotes, and equal signs.

Have you tried wrapping the whole httpstatus portion in double-quotes? "httpsstatus;http://foo:b#r at baz.com;200"

Have you tried replacing the # with %23 ? I don't really expect it to work, but it's worth a try.

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