The newest MS critical update for IE disables passing login names and passwords in URLs because this technique is used by some phishers. As you found, this change has also broken a great many legitimate web applications out there. Microsoft's answer is that they shouldn't have been doing that in the first place because it's an insecure practice. See
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114519,00.asp
Firebird 1, IE 0 ... :) Amanda Birmingham Web Application Developer
At 03:30 AM 2/6/2004, you wrote:
M$ haters will be happy to explain this:
It was IE that couldn't connect to paypal; Opera has done it with no problem! ?;-)
Joseph
> I am finding it impossible to get to the paypal site. Is it down? > (unlikely) Or have I a problem? > > Joseph >
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