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Ralph Hilken wrote: > Seems now that Microsoft will also deem the "@" sign to be sinister. This is excellent news! The business of embedding username and password in URLs in cleartext was always a hack. Then, with the introduction of referer (one of the most vile privacy intrusions ever foisted on the net) people started spewing their usernames and passwords all over the net. It is good that Microsoft has done the responsible thing and decided to stop supporting this mess in their products. Now, hopefully others will become more aware of the problems inherent in putting session-related information into URL's when, if necessary, such data belongs in cookies where it is safely hidden from "referer" and from most log file scanners. Perhaps, we'll even see support for "referer" dropped one day. That would be excellent. But, that's probably too much to hope for. bob wyman
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