RE: HTTP authentication vs. --username and --password

> From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:jerenkrantz@apache.org]
> Sent: 22 July 2002 04:45

> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:02:52PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > Peter Davis <peter@pdavis.cx> writes:
> >
> > > $ svn co http://username:password@server/repos/
> >
> > Isn't this an IE or Netscape-only syntax? I can't remember.
>
> Passing the password in the URL isn't recommended, but it is part
> of the URI spec (RFC 2396). So, it probably should be supported.
>
> My $.02. -- justin

+1 on supporting it at some point. We have all these nice apr-util
uri functions, let's put them to use.

Sander

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Received on Mon Jul 22 04:48:18 2002