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Question:
It is very common to use special characters in FTP passwords. These characters may cause browser conflicts when used for inline URL access.
Procedure:
For example, the password for FTP account USER on some_ftp_server.com is P@$$WORD - so the URL for browser access is:
ftp://USER:P@$$WORD@some_ftp_server.com
Special characters (@, $) in this URL have to be hex encoded to operate without any conflicts. And the hex conversion will look as following:
ftp://USER:P%40%24%24WORD@some_ftp_server.com
where %40 is the hex value (0x40) of '@' character and %24 is the hex value (0x24) of '$' character.
For complete list of special characters conversion codes refer to the following resource: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
