On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: .. > He then sent out the first URL above. If you examine that URL carefully, > you can see that the host name is not "www.cnn.com" but "18.69.0.44," > which is the same as salticus-peckhamae.mit.edu. (For extra obfuscation, > he could have converted that host name to decimal.) That entire bit > before the @-sign -- "www.cnn.com&story=breaking_news" -- is a > "username," something allowed by the HTTP specification but rarely used > in actual URLs.
The username/password is useful if you wanna download something from a site that requires authentication (e.g. technet.oracle.com) but you want to use wget(1) instead of your browser, e.g. http://orly:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/blah/blah/blah/blah.tar.gz I didn't know that feature of the HTTP spec was *that* obscure, I've been using it for ages. (works for ftp too..) -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
