RE: E-mail Address as Web Page URL

["Darryl Rubarth" <darryl@exyst.com>]

The basic URI protocol is as follows.

	protocol://<user>:<password>@<host>/<url-path>

The HTTP protocol doesn't currently utilize the 'user' and 'password'
elements and therefore do not pass this information to web servers.  The
user and password are exposed to the browser, making it accessible through
browser scripting to do a redirect.

I currently have no plans to discuss this at the IETF meeting.  I do believe
there is tremendous value in broadening the http protocol to allow for use
of the user and password elements, as does the FTP protocol.


Darryl

[http://darryl@exyst.com]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Marc Rassbach
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:36 AM
> To: Darryl Rubarth
> Cc: 'openldap-general@openldap.org'
> Subject: Re: E-mail Address as Web Page URL
>
>
> And this fits within the framework of the URI exactly how?
>
> Will you be making a presentation about this at the upcomming IETF
> meeting?
>