How is this permissible?
Jon Booth
jon at lucidlogic.com
Thu Sep 20 07:05:33 UTC 2001
www.beverlyhills is treated as a username in basic http authentication.
Its generally in this format
username:password at site.com
In your case there was no password supplied and the server is likely not
to be needing a pass/username
Same deal with FTP.
Jon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, I Can't Dance wrote:
> Folks, check this out:
>
> www.beverlyhills at ruthschris.com
>
> I saw an ad for this. Turns out, anything between the "www." and the "@"
> sign is ignored by Internet Explorer.
>
> www.anything at microsoft.com, takes you to the same thing you get if you just
> type in www.microsoft.com.
>
> I haven't tried it in other browsers yet. Anyway, they advertise it that
> way, and I thought it curious. Is there any case where the @ sign does one
> any good?
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