how to escape special characters in .gitconfig proxy authentication

Question

I'm trying to use git behind a proxy and i have set up the proxy details in the .gitconfig files as follows.

 [http]
     proxy = http://<username>:<password>@<proxy_ip>:<proxy_port>

The problem is that the username and password field contain the '@' character which needs to be escaped.How should it be escaped?

Answer 1

Replacing @ with %40. (as illustrated, for instance, in this bug report)

export http_proxy=http://username%40domain.com:password@host:port