curl password issue

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andre wrote:
> Until now I didn't found out how to solve the issue excepting 
> changing
> the password;)
> In case I find the solution I will make a pull request.
>
> Kind regards
> André
>
> On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 16:58:16 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 16:10:42 UTC, Andre wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Curl has some issues with passwords containing special 
>>> characters
>>> like the hash key (#).
>>> The password will not be accepted although it is correctly
>>> set with the method setAuthencication("user", "pass1234#");
>>>
>>> I know this is more a Curl issue than a DLang issue but it
>>> is very frustrating and for unexperienced users very hard to
>>> find out why the application is working for some users
>>> and for some others not...
>>>
>>> Could the documentation for setAuthentication could be 
>>> enhanced?
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> André
>>
>> Sure. You can make a pull request. The documentation in 
>> question is here:
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/net/curl.d#L1809
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/net/curl.d#L2411
>>
>> Alternatively, you can suggest a text here, and I or some else 
>> will submit one.

The suggestion to make a pull request wasn't to provide a 
work-around for the undesired behavior, but rather to add a 
comment noting what the the behavior was (as a warning for 
users).  If this is a limitation of curl, there likely isn't 
anything D can do about it.