Re: Adding user@ to HTTP[S] URIs

• From: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>
• Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:19:55 +0100
• To: Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>
• CC: "HTTPbis WG (IETF)" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <5E2D67CB.5090400@openfortress.nl>

Hi Paul,

> noting, i have used https://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/ as a base URL for 
> private document sharing for many years now. apache has always supported it, 
> as well as nginx, and the original web server that apache was a patch set for. 
> i think the industry would benefit from standardizing that

Yes, it is good to have something standardised.

> rather than 
> creating something new like https://vixie@family.redbarn.org/

But that is *not* new, it is what URIs are designed to do :)
and it is logical, other protocols use the user@domain.name format too.
Precisely why it is part of the URI specification, to draw one line.

-Rick

Received on Sunday, 26 January 2020 10:20:32 UTC