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

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

Xymonnet fails to parse it. Log says:

URL : https://admin_name:443/#Z at abc.com/abc HTTP status : 0

Looking at code(version 4.3.24), ‘#' causes NULL auth, which will cause user name part be use as host name.

Can this be confirmed?

Thanks, -Max