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Re: Adding user@ to HTTP[S] URIs

Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> Sun, 26 January 2020 10:22 UTC

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Hi Paul,

> noting, i have used https://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/ as a base URL for 
> private document sharing for many years now. apache has always supported it, 
> as well as nginx, and the original web server that apache was a patch set for. 
> i think the industry would benefit from standardizing that

Yes, it is good to have something standardised.

> rather than 
> creating something new like https://vixie@family.redbarn.org/

But that is *not* new, it is what URIs are designed to do :)
and it is logical, other protocols use the user@domain.name format too.
Precisely why it is part of the URI specification, to draw one line.

-Rick

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