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Asked: 2026-06-11T03:04:00+00:00

I’m not using PHP, but another language for this.. just FYI. However, I included

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I’m not using PHP, but another language for this.. just FYI. However, I included the PHP as a tag, just in case someone there has a solution…

At the moment I’m first trying to get the string right (to download a file through curl from a remote server to a local domain). Anyway, the password contains a percent sign (%).
When I do this, I get the following error on my command line:

curl: (67) Access denied: 530

The 67 is an error code from curl (see also http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html) and means that “The user name, password, or similar was not accepted and curl failed to log in.”

Now say the original string would be this:

curl -u Login:Pass%Word

I’ve tried the following solutions that I found on the net:

curl -u Login:Pass%25Word
curl -u Login:Pass%%Word
curl -u Login:Pass^%Word
curl -u Login:Pass^%%Word

However.. I ALWAYS get the Access denied.

Could someone help me out, please?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have just replayed your case: made user test / some%password and secured my site.

    These two commands works:
    curl -u 'test:some%password'
    curl -u test:some%password

    It seems you just using wrong password or misspelled server name

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