curl password issue

[Charles via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 00:20:45 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 16:10:42 UTC, Andre wrote:
>
>> Curl has some issues with passwords containing special 
>> characters
>> like the hash key (#).
>
> I don't found any reference for this issue in curl and the D 
> wrapper hardly adds anything. You're sure it isn't an issue 
> with your program or how you pass the password?

This might be the case here. I was recently dealing with this and 
I had to percent encode the hash key (%23 for reference). Also, I 
ran into issues regarding the http_proxy and https_proxy 
environment variables, but again those are unrelated to curl.d.