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Microsoft To Remove Support For http(s) auth URLs

Posted by timothy on from the was-sonst dept.

damohasi writes "According to Microsoft Knowledge Base, MS "plans to release a software update that removes support for handling user names and passwords in HTTP and HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or HTTPS URLs in Microsoft Internet Explorer". Whether this will break rfc 1738 or not, it might get webspace provider in trouble who offer @-domains like the German 1und1."

2 of 79 comments (clear)

  1. Re:darn. by Imperator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually this bug works in the opposite order--the first string is the one that's displayed. Then again, maybe your meant that: after all, it's not inconceivable that people would be more willing to give their credit card number over to the goatse guy than to Microsoft...

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  2. Re:darn. by pb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, you know, the difference between Bill Gates and the goatse.cx guy... one is a giant asshole, well-known and feared by many, and the other one is just a regular guy with a personal website for himself...

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