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Re: Adding user@ to HTTP[S] URIs

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Mon, 27 January 2020 12:24 UTC

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On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Rick van Rein wrote:

> Please introduce me to any dragons you encounter; this caution alone does 
> not seem cause for action yet.

Maybe not a dragon, but...

$ curl foo@localhost -v
...
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
> Authorization: Basic Zm9vOg==

... because userinfo in HTTP has only ever been there and used for 
authentication.

(Zm9vOg== is "foo:" base64 encoded)

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