[WEB4LIB] Telnet URLs

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Dan Lester wrote:

> According to the Koala Book, page 174, I should be able to pass a login or 
> a login/password combo in  a Telnet URL, just as you can in an FTP 
> URL.  Well, I can't make it work.
>  
> I'm trying to have users click on a link to 
> ...
> telnet://catalyst@catalyst.boisestate.edu, and as 
> telnet://login:password@catalyst.boisestate.edu/  

Both of those are correct, except there should be no trailing slash. As has
been pointed out, you need a telnet that can handle this convention. Anzio
(our product) can. You can test from a DOS prompt by doing
   start telnet://login:password@catalyst.boisestate.edu

However, to use this with a browser, you ALSO need a browser that passes the
entire URL. IE has done this correctly for quite some time, but Netscape does
not. Instead, it strips the username and password off.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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