3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
1:21 p.m.
Yes they broke basic auth in a URL.
I am uncertain as to why it was necessary to remove this functionality.
Bryan
Apparently, there were ways to use this to make one URL look like the URL of another site. According to Microsoft, it isn't just 'www.microsoft.com@63.49.11.12/foo', but there were other problems involving being able to completely fool even technically savvy people (that is, nothing on the screen would reveal the real source of the web page you were looking at and every visible indicator was spoofable). DS