Mention which format URIs follow, with a small example on escaping special characters. --- fish/guestfish.pod | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index c3f684563..1201176e9 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -1225,6 +1225,16 @@ The equivalent API command would be: +Note that the URIs follow the syntax of +L<RFC 3986|https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986>;: in particular, there +are restrictions on the allowed characters for the various components +of the URI. Characters such as C<:>, C<@>, and C</> B<must> be +percent-encoded: + + $ guestfish -a ssh://user:pass%40word@example.com/disk.img + +In this case, the password is C<pass@word>. + =head1 PROGRESS BARS Some (not all) long-running commands send progress notification -- 2.13.5