On Wed, 12 May 2004, Dan Boger wrote:
> Only for real web-browsers, or unpatched IE. MS, in the infinite
> wisdom decided that they should drop support for that kind of URL (with
> the embedded username/password) because it was too dangerous.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;834489
To be fair, there were a lot of spoofing attacks going around, with scam
emails telling people to go to sites like
http://www.fleet.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/foo/bar/baz.asp
If you don't know what a legit URL is supposed to look like, it would be
all to easy to fall for that.
I can't really blame them for dropping support -- it's not like it's a
feature that was getting a whole lot of legitmate usage...
--
Chris Devers
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