On 09/05/06, Adam Taft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Just as a point of clarification...

When you embed a password into the URL (as discussed in this thread like
https://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]), the username and password won't
be encrypted even if you're using SSL (https).  That's obvious, right?

Well kind of, except that the username and password should *not* be
used in the URL but kept until they can be sent after a request for
authentication, in *exactly* the same way as if you'd typed them into
a grey box. The only real issue would be where they were visible
locally, e.g. in browser history or such like.
We're *not* talking about that here, we're talking about using the URL
construct to pass them internally to the xml rpc client.

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