On 2004-01-28 McAllister, Andrew wrote: [ MS about to invalidate usage of http://<user>:<pass>@<host> in IE ] > Anyone have any comments regarding legitimate uses of this syntax and > Microsoft removing it from their browser? (and presumably the OS since > the browser IS the OS). There is no legitimate use of this syntax and never was. Although RFC 2396 does specify a generic URI syntax allowing <user>:<pass>@<host>:<port> it expressly excludes those URLs whose syntax is specified in RFC 1738: | This document updates and merges "Uniform Resource Locators" [RFC1738] | and "Relative Uniform Resource Locators" [RFC1808] in order to define | a single, generic syntax for all URI. It excludes those portions of | RFC 1738 that defined the specific syntax of individual URL schemes; | those portions will be updated as separate documents, as will the | process for registration of new URI schemes. RFC 1738 clearly says: | An HTTP URL takes the form: | | http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart> So do RFCs 1945 and 2616. Regards Ansgar Wiechers
