On 12.11.2011 20:34, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> Regarding user:passwd@host syntax it us up to browser how to interpret the
> URL.
> If browser cannot interpret username and password in the URL it is
> just browser's thing.
It is not up to the browser at all. See RFC-2616 (HTTP 1.1), section 3.2.2:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.2
It does not mention username or password anywhere. I think people tend
to confuse http:// with ftp://, which does allow embedding the username
and password in the URL.
-- Brane
