Proxy Authentication Issues - Escaping of special character (e.g. '@')

[MrBlue]

Hello everybody,

we are currently testing n8n and identified a proxy authentication issue in our setup.
Unfortunately, we have a proxy service account that contains the letter @ in its name. When using the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy, we are normally url encoding the character @ → %40.
This does not seem to work for n8n. When checking the requests with tcpdump, we can see that n8n does not decode the %40 to the @ character while performing the basic authentication against the proxy. This results in a failed authentication request. Is there anyway to solve this problems like escaping the @ character in another way?

Thanks in advance.

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 1.72.1
• Database (default: SQLite): sqlite
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): docker
• Operating system: Ubuntu

[solomon]

Hey @MrBlue I hope you have alraedy solved this issue, but in case you didn’t:

To escape characters you can usually use backslash \

But depending on the case, it would be better so see your workflow setup. Sometimes just using the correct settings can solve this issue.

If my reply already clarifies your question, please remember to mark it as the solution.

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