How is this permissible?

[Jon Booth]

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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