FYI. Was: userinfo allowed in http URI or not?

At 23:31 01/02/04 -0500, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>As you may know Microsoft is going to remove the userinfo from http URLs
>for Internet Explroer, so that URIs like:
>
>http://userinfo@host
>
>won't work anymore.
-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2004Feb/0000.html

FYI, there is a RISKS forum piece about this at:
   http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.17.html#subj8

It's also been raised on the W3C TAG list:
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2004Feb/0018.html

#g


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