[Web4lib] creating a link that bypasses username and password page

[Dan Field]

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> On 7/7/2006 6:36 AM, Dan Field wrote:
>
>  > A URL can be constructed for HTTP authentication (as found in Apache
>> .htaccess files for example) like so:
>>
>> http://username:password@host.domain.tld/path/to/file
>>
>
> FWIW, while this parallels the userinfo part of other URI schemes, it is
> not defined in the HTTP scheme.  Browsers may or may not support it; I
> know from experience that some firewalls do not.

Thanks Thomas. I wasn't aware of that. Something to note for the future!

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