On 12.11.2011 08:12, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > On Friday, November 11, 2011 9:31 PM, "Branko Čibej" <br...@xbc.nu> wrote: >> 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. > While we're on this topic: is there an HTTP URL syntax that sets the > "Host:" header of the HTTP request? > > curl -H "Host: foo" http://bar/percent_s > > (Well, what I really want is a way to tell $BROWSER to make such > requests, so I don't have to use curl | less each time I want to do > them.)
Nope. When I want to do magic stuff with request headers, I either use curl, or an appropriate browser plugin. -- Brane
