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I am sending a get request with username and password for basic authentication in the url, unfortunately the password contains $ sign, how do I disable the url encoding? I cannot send the a password with a $ as it turns into %24, pls help.

only the Apache client does it, so i change client!

You should never put the password in the url. Only in some browsers, this is converted to the correct header. Other clients, like curl using terminal don't convert it. Please use the correct header in the request builder:
```get("/") {
    header(HttpHeaders.Authorization, "Basic ${"$username:$password".encodeBase64()}")
}```

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-2876>

You can set the value of `urlEncodingOption` property to `<http://UrlEncodingOption.NO|UrlEncodingOption.NO>_ENCODING` to disable encoding. Here is an example:
```val url = URLBuilder().apply {
    parameters.urlEncodingOption = UrlEncodingOption.NO_ENCODING
    parameters.append("username", "john")
    parameters.append("password", "sec\$ret")
}

println(url.buildString())```