You have to URL-encode the colon as %3A.

See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/session_url#special

Hello all,
i am trying to upload the files to SFTP server. but in the username, we are using the colon.
but when i run the script it took only the username without colon.
open sftp://username::Password@sftp.example.ttd.om/ -hostkey="ssh-rsa 1024 80:5a:d1:b8:1a:db:3f:e4:55:f7:81:4c:76:5e:53:a9"
can i use the username with colon: username:
is there any way to achieve this.

please help me out on this.

Thanks and Regards,
Ram[/b]