Proxy value parsing error

Environment

• pip version:19.2.3
• Python version:3.7.4
• OS:Windows 10

Description I use a proxy and I was using pip to install a few packages but as soon as I upgraded my pip to 19.2.3 I keep getting an error ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: Failed to parse: http://name:[e-mail]:80

My password has special characters like “(”, “)”, “%”, I guess it is causing the pip to escape midway. Once I changed my password with simpler special characters like “!”, it worked.

Expected behavior Usual pip install behavior

How to Reproduce

All this with --proxy

1. Try installing packages using pip using earlier versions, I used 19.1.1 or earlier.
2. Then upgrade pip to 19.2.3 and try installing packages.

Output

>pip3 --proxy http://name:[e-mail]:80 install -r requirements.txt
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: Failed to parse: http://name:[e-mail]:80

[chrahunt]

Hi @S-Mann, yes if you want to use any URL-special characters you just need to percent-encode them.

@kpetey123, can you please create a separate issue and provide the command you are executing and the output? Along with the other information requested in the issue form please, that would help a lot. Thank you!

[kpetey123]

Environment

• Pip: 19.2.3
• Python: 3.6
• OS: Windows 10

I am having a similar issue, but my password does not have any special characters. below is what I am tryinig to use (not my real password, but same type of format)

pip install --proxy wss-master\dt24358:[e-mail]:9119 ibm_db

And I am getting the same error: ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: Failed to parse:

I have tried encoding the @ with %40 but that doesn’t work either. Any help would be appreciated.