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Article 187

URL that contains "@" in password

From the RFC 1738:

"...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."

You have to hex encode the @ in the URL:
user: myuser
password: h@t
host: myhost

To url => hex encode unsafe characters =>
ftp://myuser:h%40t@myhost

References
RFC 1738
URL Encoding

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