→ Internet Explorer does not support user names and passwords in Web site addresses
I made this discovery today, much to my chagrin. All common web browsers, including IE until recently, allowed a username and password directly in a URL to avoid the ugly HTTP authentication box in certain circumstances.
e.g. http://username:password@mywebsite.com/
Microsoft decided that this was a security risk and in one of its umpteen thousand security updates, disabled this behaviour in IE.
Well, poop. Yet another thing that IE has to do differently.
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