Re: MS to stop allowing passwords in URLs
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