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Re: Latest IE patch breaking non username:password@encoded websites?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Heitman)
Tue Feb 3 12:41:44 2004

From: "Bryan Heitman" <bryan@bryanheitman.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:34:20 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Yes they broke basic auth in a URL.

I am uncertain as to why it was necessary to remove this functionality.

Bryan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herman Harless" <herman@ntelos.net>
To: "nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: Latest IE patch breaking non username:password@encoded websites?


> 
> We're starting to take complaints from folks who have installed the
> latest IE patch about various broken website functionality.  The
> complaints are not related to folks trying to use the username:password@
> functionality that was removed by the patch.
> 
> Is anyone taking similar calls / seeing similar issues? 
> 
> Herman Harless
> Director, Advanced Data Network Engineering and Operations
> NTELOS, Inc.
> herman@ntelos.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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