----- Original Message -----
From: "Paolo Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [plug] What the?@%&^


> I'd expect that MS would "borrow" that functionality in their next
iteration
> of Internet Explorer. [Damn the courts: full integration ahead!]

you cant blame microsoft for this because they have the freedom to integrate
this functionality as they like as what rfc 2396 says. in fact microsoft and
netscape already supported this long time ago.

for example, i like this feature and used it several times if you dont have
a ftp client at hand... just put to your browser:

ftp://username@ftpsite

but the complete syntax is protocol://username:password@hostname

usually you dont include password in uri because someone can view it thru
history list.. you just neglect the password and wait for password dialog
box to come up, but of course this is still in plain text password.

fooler.

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