[67148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Latest IE patch breaking non username:password@encoded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Workman)
Tue Feb 3 13:19:11 2004
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:20:23 -0500
From: Jeff Workman <jworkman@pimpworks.org>
To: Bryan Heitman <bryan@bryanheitman.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <012b01c3ea7b$f52fe6a0$0b01a8c0@bryanhhome>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:34 AM -0600 Bryan Heitman
<bryan@bryanheitman.com> wrote:
>
> Yes they broke basic auth in a URL.
>
> I am uncertain as to why it was necessary to remove this functionality.
My guess is that too many people were getting burned by URLs like this:
http://www.microsoft.com@%77%77%77%2E%70%69%6D%70%77%6F%72%6B%73%2E%6F%72%67
-Jeff
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