- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:40:51 +0100 (CET)
- To: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>
- cc: James Fuller <jim@webcomposite.com>, Austin Wright <aaa@bzfx.net>, "HTTPbis WG (IETF)" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Rick van Rein wrote: > Browsers have no consistency in this usage pattern, so this is definately a > niche. Yes, but a niche with potentially a large amount of users. And in fact, it sends the user name without a password in a HTTP header, which is... well, what you ask for. =) > As a result, nobody would publish such a URI for global purposes, Then again URIs aren't globally defined so they can in fact not be used "for global purposes" - period. I keep this incomplete list of interop issues for the fun of it: https://github.com/bagder/docs/blob/master/URL-interop.md The best we can do right now is global purposes **with a certain subset of tools**. The userinfo part of a URI/URL in particular has notoriously bad interop properties. > and so there is room to define adaptations to the behaviour. I appreciate your optimism! -- / daniel.haxx.se
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