Strange URL

[Terrence Koeman]

If you need to authenticate to a webserver you can do it in the following
form:

http://user:password@host.domain.tld/

If you don't need to authenticate any user or password is ignored, so
http://www.prometheus@gwu.edu is really http://gwu.edu/ and the username
'www.prometheus' is ignored.

Or if you really want to make a fancy hosting construction, you could
serve up a different website for the user 'www.prometheus', but this is
never ment for that.

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Regards,

Terrence Koeman

Technical Director/Administrator
MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl)

Please quote all replies in correspondence.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Behrooz Hadavi
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 15:28
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Strange URL
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> I have a user who is trying to access to a URL on the Internet.
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> The URL is http://www.prometheus@gwu.edu
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> My DNS server is unable to resolve the request. Any comments or
> suggestions are highly appreciated.
>
> Behrooz.
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