Microsoft and URI syntax

I was wondering if the TAG (or less formally, just the people here as
individuals) had any thoughts on the decision by Microsoft to consider
usernames (and passwords) in URIs to be invalid syntax in a move to prevent
spoofing.

Will this have an appreciable affect on architectural issues, or is the use of
usernames too rare for it to have much effect?

My initial outrage at the idea is beginning to calm down considering how rare
usernames are in general interchange, although I still don't see why they don't
change how the URIs are displayed in the browser if there is a period in a
username (http://www%2E%6D%69%63%72%6F%73%6F%66%74%2E%63%6F%6D@example.com
appearing in the address bar wouldn't fool anyone).

-- 
Jon Hanna
<http://www.hackcraft.net/>
*Thought provoking quote goes here*

Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2004 04:37:05 UTC