Virtualbox OVF/OVA mutates URL

[cirrith]

Builder: Virtualbox ovf
Using source_path to specify username and password to access password protected ova online mutates characters so different password is displayed.

{
    "builders": [{
        "type": "virtualbox-ovf",
        "source_path": "https://username:[email protected]/image.ova",
        "ssh_username": "root"
    }]
}

Results in the following:
Downloading: https://username:pass%[email protected]/image.ova

Looks like it is occurring with the following characters:
!@*()

Each character maps to a different %XX value
I only tried the top row of qwerty keyboard

Packer Version: 1.3.3
Host platform: Ubuntu 18.04, amd64

[rickard-von-essen]

The URL is url encoded, that is how it should be. To my knowledge source_path doesn't support Basic Auth.

[cirrith]

You can do authorization in the url but it seems like it isn't 100% encoding it one way or another cause ':' should have resolved so %3A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

[SwampDragons]

We have a PR in progress right now that should resolve this, so I'm not going to work on it independently at the moment -- to work around for now, you can download the file to a local cache and just give Packer the filepath.

[cirrith]

Of course, looks like a big change. I was hoping not to put a wrapper script around packer. I will double check after the PR is done. Thank you, amazing tool!

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