[33410] in bugtraq
RE: MS to stop allowing passwords in URLs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Weisenberger)
Wed Feb 4 08:50:29 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:00:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Joe Weisenberger <jjfw@one.net>
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Fergus Brooks wrote:
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> Also I have found that often to get to an FTP server on the Internet
> (depending on the proxy, connection, firewall etc) that you need to use
> this format. Taking this functionality away will certainly make it
> harder for a lot of support people and consultants to do their jobs.
>
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I just applied this patch (KB832894 MS-04-004) to IE 6.0 on W2K to check
handling of ftp url's. After the patch, ftp://username:password@site still
works. I think the change only applies to http, https.
