I'm trying to set up some selenium tests to our staging server using Sauce Labs. It's behind a basic http auth, so theoretically I could set the selenium URL to http://user:password@www.stagesite.com. However, the password contains a "@", causing all sorts of problems as you can imagine. I tried escaping it with a backslash but that did nothing from what I can tell.
So,
is there an alternative way to do http authentication using selenium, i.e., not via the URL. Or,
is there a way to use URL-based auth but somehow tell the browser that the "@" is part of the password?