MQTT password problem

[MajoV]

It is not possible to enter an MQTT password containing the @ character.
This is a huge problem for us because our MQTT broker password contains this character.

Is there any solution for this?

[erxbout]

Can confirm this.

When setting 'mcu' (MqttBrokerUrl) to something like that:
mqtt://userWithSpecialPassword:r@[email protected]:1883

The parser throws an error and does not save the change on 'mcu'

However, when you url escape the '@' character it is accepted by the charger..

mqtt://userWithSpecialPassword:r%[email protected]:1883

In the end this still does not help, because the library we use does not url decode the password and sends the character as is ('%40')

We opened an issue regarding the bug there:
espressif/esp-mqtt#294