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A more or less identical piece of code to sanitise the CONF_host string prior to session launch existed in Windows PuTTY and both Windows and Unix Plink. It's long past time it was centralised. While I'm here, I've added a couple of extra comments in the centralised version, including one that - unfortunately - tries _but fails_ to explain why a string of the form "host.name:1234" doesn't get the suffix moved into CONF_port the way "user@host" moves the prefix into CONF_username. Commit c1c1bc471 is the one I'm referring to in the comment, and unfortunately it has an unexplained one-liner log message from before I got into the habit of being usefully verbose.
PuTTY README
============
This is the README file for the PuTTY installer distribution. If
you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and
installed PuTTY on your system.
What should I do next?
----------------------
If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP
to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the
Start menu.
If you want to use the command-line-only file transfer utility PSCP,
you will probably want to put the PuTTY installation directory on
your PATH. On Windows 7 and similar versions, you can do this at
Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system
settings > Environment Variables.
Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)
if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed
PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file
works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054
for information on how to solve this problem.
What do I do if it doesn't work?
--------------------------------
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature
requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or
in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report
bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to
save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports
telling us `it doesn't work'.