Re: [Full-Disclosure] Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

[Szilveszter Adam <adam@hif.hu>]

rhetorical question wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I *may* be wrong.  But I do believe the  "http://username:password@... " bit 
> has been around for some time.  I remember finding that out a long time ago, 
> which was convient in regards to browsing FTP sites which require a login/
> password.  Was using Netscape Navigator Gold, mid 90s.

Which is totally irrelevant, since it is about FTP urls. That part is 
RFC-compliant and still works. Why do people think that just because you 
can use the same (rather poor) all-singing-all-dancing tool to access 
certain services, then these must be the same thing?  Oh wait, there are 
still people who think that it is the "www" in the name that makes a web 
server... (It seems Netscape founders really made some bad chioces way 
back then when they decided to integrate several tools into their web 
browser. Just to make it easier on the layman user... now there is a 
whole generation that thinks that the Internet is pretty much what's in 
the browser. Brrrr.)

Regards:
Sz.

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