Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:10:03 08/31/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 23:42:15, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>On August 30, 2000 at 15:10:39, Howard Exner wrote:
>
>>On August 30, 2000 at 11:52:48, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>However, there is a way to stuff username and password into the URL,
>>>explicitly. I do not exactly remember the details... together with some
>>>delimiting special chars they are inserted after the // and before the hostname.
>>>You could them bookmark the extended URL, and would not have to type in
>>>username and password ever again.
>>>Of course, no one else should be able to see this bookmarked URL...
>>>for obvious reasons.
>>>
>>>May be someone can fill in the details.
>>
>>I use this link for Internet Explorer,
>>where you substitute the "Login" and "password" with your own unique
>>Login name and password.
>>I'm not sure if it works with Netscape.
>>
>>http://Login:password@icdchess.com/forums/1/filter.html
>
>Yes, exactly, that matches my vague memories! Thanks for the details.
>
>And I have done it that way with netscape some month ago, and it worked,
>if I remember right. I didn't like it for other reasons, and stopped
>to use it.
I tried too. IIRC, the problem is that already visited links do not appear in
the "already visited" color anymore. It is a big annoyance when you read CCC.
That's why I stopped using it.
Christophe
>I also believe this (the extension of the URL) is just what the browsers
>do to communicate that data to the web server, but I'm not sure about it.
>If that is correct, most (if not all) browsers should support such
>extended URLs (by just transferring it).
>
>Heiner
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