On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:22, Eric V. Smith wrote: > The thing that was removed from IE was support for username@password in > http URL's, not any encoding. Ahh.. That makes much more sense. Thanks. > The argument was that it's unsafe and that there's no non-obsolete RFC > that specifies it. From my reading of the ensuing ruckus, the "unsafe" > part is a series of IE bugs, and the RFC issue is debatable, but > probably correct. Hmm, yea, I wasn't aware of that being deprecated anywhere. I'll have to play a little catch-up on URI related specs this weekend. I know there's been a ton of activity wrt URIs in the past year or so. Thanks, - Ryan
