[ale] OT: MS disabling features and changing old standards.

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:24:08PM -0500, Adrin wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that another
> recent update also took out http://username:password at www.website.com?

Yes, this is because of all the phishing scams which expoloit this.
This was posted to bugtraq a few weeks ago, more info is here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834489

It's also interesting to note that, despite the fact that many browsers
support this URL syntax, it's not valid according to the RFCs, as
pointed out in this message:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/352429/2004-01-29/2004-02-04/0

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