Can I have a pound sign ("#") in my password in the up2date network proxy configuration file?

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Issue

When I have a pound sign ("#") in my network proxy password in the up2date configuration file, up2date/yum would not work properly. What is the problem?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5

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