npm proxy settings escape '\' char

Question

I am behind a corporate proxy and I need to set the settings to npm. The only problem is my username contains a \ char. The proxy setting should look like this: http://PREFIX\username:[email protected]:port but the end result is like this: http://prefix/username:[email protected]:port which is totally wrong.

Putting %5C instead of \ doesn't work. Neither does putting the username and password, or the whole url in "".

I know this question has been asked numerous times but none of the solutions did it for me. I am on a windows machine. I would be grateful if you have any suggestions.

Answer 1

You have to percent-encode | encode the special characters. E.g. instead of this:

http://foo:B/[email protected]:8080

you write this:

http://foo:B%[email protected]:8080

So / gets replaced with %2F.

Answer 2

Use %5C, it will replace '\'

http://foo:T\[email protected]:8080

to

http://foo:T%[email protected]:8080