In message <199903190132.MAA21820@wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au>, Luke Mewburn writes:
[re ftp and passwords that break its url handling]
>this should be a pr ;-)

It is.  :)  I think your analysis is probably right.  MHO, the thing to do
is make a list of characters that *don't* need to be escaped.  I used to have
control characters in a frequently-used password, and I'd hate to see those
make something choke.  ;)

-s