If you configure your http proxy to use an authenticated proxy url like http://<username>:<password>@<myproxy>, the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables are set as expected. If the password contains a value like a ( or ) it causes an invalid environment variable because that environment variable needs to be quoted. I'm not sure the exhaustive list of characters that need to be quoted.
If you configure your http proxy to use an authenticated proxy url like
http://<username>:<password>@<myproxy>
, theHTTP_PROXY
andHTTPS_PROXY
environment variables are set as expected. If the password contains a value like a(
or)
it causes an invalid environment variable because that environment variable needs to be quoted. I'm not sure the exhaustive list of characters that need to be quoted.