[Yum] Using yum against password protected http repositories

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 13:16 -0500, Peter M. Abraham wrote:

> Greetings Seth:
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> My user name is based on an email address so there are two "@" (one in the 
> user name, and then after the password).
> 
> That appears to choke.
> 
> I tried escaping the first @ but that doesn't work.

If the username and password can't be encoded in a url (like in mozilla)
then it's not going to be possible to use it that way.

That's how the url handlers yum uses include usernames and passwords

Michael? Ryan? Thoughts on this?
-sv