[jcifs] SmbURL's with @'s in the path portion

[Conrad Minshall]

At 4:45 PM -0800 11/14/01, rjw wrote:
>Mike,
>
>Just found something else... if I have a url that looks like the following:
>
>smb://rob:password@hostname/sharename/foo/Mom @ Cannes/lotr.jpg
>
>jCIFS balks with a hostname not found exception. I believe I found the
>reason, though.
>
>Line 176 of SmbURL does a lastIndexOf ("@") to get the index of the @.
>It then looks after the @ for the hostname. So, in this case, it's
>trying to find a server named " Cannes", I think.
>
>Is there any issue that I am unaware of with making this an indexOf
>instead of lastIndexOf()?

AFAIK all "@" must be escaped (using the "%" digit digit URL syntax),
except for the one which precedes the hostname.  Note an "@" could be part
of someone's password too.


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