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

[Thomas Dowling]

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.


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu