[Mldonkey-users] Re: URL with login & pass

[Robin Hill]

On Fri Apr 30, 2004 at 09:54:33AM +0200, Lionel Bouton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alex wrote the following on 04/30/2004 09:04 AM :
> 
> >Hello everybody :)
> >
> >Since the ~ 2.5-17 Internet Explorer seems to failed to authenticate / 
> >display
> >the page automaticaly with an URL like 
> >http://admin:address@hidden:4080/
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> The http://user:address@hidden syntax support has been removed from IE 
> because they suffered several security problems with it and couldn't fix 
> it properly.
> 
> Just use browsers that support standards...
> 
Just to point out that this syntax is not and never has been part of the
standard.  It is standard syntax for FTP but not for HTTP (though, as
you say, most other browsers do support it).

Cheers,
        Robin

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