catiger's Journal: IE7 URL parsing bug identified

I tried accessing a ftp server by entering the ftp URL in IE7 and got such a stupid error message: The requested URL could not be retrieved. however, the same URL works for FF and IE6. after using Ethereal to track the traffic, i realized that IE7 didn't do a proper job in delimiting the password with the other fields in the URL when the password contains the special character @. after i googled the web and could not find a simliar post about this so i decided to put it here. you may hit into it someday but you can always use FF browser or other ftp client like FileZilla to handle it properly. btw, a normal FTP URL looks like this: ftp://username:password@host:port/path