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No. The UA strips those and puts them in an Auth header.
by jimktrains2 14y ago
No. The UA strips those and puts them in an Auth header.
- lhazlewood 14y agoDepends on the UA (curl?)
- jimktrains2 14y agoOK, so it'll either add an auth header or not know what to do and refuse to do anything. Either way the password is not sent in the request url
- jimktrains2 14y agoActually, I mused have screwed up last night. The version of curl I have does support it and does put it into the Auth header. % curl --trace-ascii /dev/stdout http://jimktrains:password@news.ycombinator.com == Info: About to connect() to news.ycombinator.com port 80 (#0) == Info: Trying 184.172.10.74... == Info: connected == Info: Server auth using Basic with user 'jimktrains' => Send header, 223 bytes (0xdf) 0000: GET / HTTP/1.1 0010: Authorization: Basic amlta3RyYWluczpwYXNzd29yZA== ....... Some UAs however, do just drop it. Like IE (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489)
- jes5199 14y agoEven curl does the right thing for basic auth