On 11.11.2011 13:27, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 11/10/2011 04:48 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> The user I was talking to actually tried the above user@server syntax, but >> with https (which didn't work as he expected). > I tried this recently, too, and was rather surprised to find that it didn't > do what I expected.
That's because the user:passwd@host syntax is not valid for HTTP URLs. -- Brane