htaccess credentials in URL when password contains a hash #

Question

Using Selenium I am accessing protected pages. I need to put the credentials into the URL to prevent the .htaccess popup from appearing. This is the method suggested in Selenium documentation.

One of the locations I need to access has a hash character in the password, and this causes the browser (both Chrome and Firefox) to not understand the URL and treat it as a search term.

e.g. http://user:pass@example.com/ gets through, but http://user:pa#ss@example.com/ is not recognised as a URL.

How can I "encode" the hash?

I'm using Scala, but the language is not relevant. This is a problem that can be seen by manually typing the URL. — Synesso, Mar 16 '14 at 05:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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You should use Percent-encoding to encode the hash with %23.

htaccess credentials in URL when password contains a hash #

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