Web authentication

[John J. Lee]

Alan Kennedy <alanmk at hotmail.com> writes:

> [John J. Lee]
> > Doesn't/shouldn't http://user:passwd@example.com/blah.html work?
> > 
> > I don't know where that syntax is specified (if anywhere)
> 
> RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
> 
> Section: 3.2.2. Server-based Naming Authority
> 
> Quoting from that section 
> 
> """
>    URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based protocol to
> a
>    specified server on the Internet use a common syntax for the server
>    component of the URI's scheme-specific data:
> 
>       <userinfo>@<host>:<port>
[...]

Oops, how did I miss that?

Thanks


John