Standards?

[fleetfootmike]

We're Microsoft. We don't have to obey fucking STANDARDS.

In which Microsoft unilaterally remove support for

<protocol>://<user>:<password>@<site>/

URLs from IE with the latest security patch. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q834489 and weep.

(Yes, there's a registry hack to get round it. And yes, I know *why* they're doing it. )

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

The version of the story I heard was that the URL format was specified in one RFC, with all the options, and further RFCs specified the different valid options for ftp, http, news, etc.

And this particular User-ID/password format was not one of the options in the actual http section of the tree.

I think the argument could run and run.

I ought to check Demon's instructions for using their homepages system: the basic web server for customers. I'm pretty sure it used the ftp version of this in the instructions.