Connecting to FTP via ftp:// with a username conta

Question

I learned that you can use an url for things like filesize(),filetype(),isdir() and etc.

This url is: ftp://user:[e-mail]/pub/fichier.txt

But, I am wondering what if your username is lets say [e-mail]

Would i write the url like this:

ftp://[e-mail]:[e-mail]/pub/ficher.txt

Also, CPanel on shared hosting does not appear to give the option to connect without an @ symbol.

In other words, how do I login via ftp://user:[e-mail] when the username is [e-mail].

Thanks Cyrus

Answer 1

From http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

The user name (and password), if present, are followed by a commercial at-sign "@". Within the user and password field, any ":", "@", or "/" must be encoded.

Use rawurlencode() - see Example #1