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Re: Adding user@ to HTTP[S] URIs

Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> Sat, 25 January 2020 16:02 UTC

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Hi Daniel,

> You can't fix this simply by saying that setting the name part of the
> userinfo in a HTTP URI is OK. HTTP has no established way to send a
> user name outside of authentication.

Exactly.  That's why I started this thread with an Internet Draft,
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user/

For http://john@example.com/index.html it sends

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User: john


Cheers,
 -Rick

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