Re: HTTPS and user:pass@site URI schemes

On Thursday, Aug 7, 2003, at 19:31 Asia/Tokyo, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>
>> It is standard. At least, if I remember correctly, it's in the URI 
>> RFC.
>
> RFC 1738:
>
>    An HTTP URL takes the form:
>
>       http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart>
>
>    where <host> and <port> are as described in Section 3.1. If :<port>
>    is omitted, the port defaults to 80.  No user name or password is
>    allowed.
> Similar for RFC 2616 and RFC 2818 for that matter. Not allowed.


Ah, right, it's in 2396 (I finally checked), but it's only for the 
general syntax of URIS. Thanks Bjoern for the clarification.

-- 
olivier

Received on Thursday, 7 August 2003 06:42:17 UTC