Re: Adding user@ to HTTP[S] URIs

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 01:40:51PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> 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. =)

Actually the only valid use case I've ever had for user[+pass] in URIs
were for FTP URIs that I was typing in browsers (or following links to
download stuff from various places). I'm not even sure browsers still
support FTP URIs nowadays ;-)

Willy

Received on Monday, 27 January 2020 15:32:45 UTC