RE: the latest MS tech manual
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:14:33 -0800, "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Wow. I thought it was microsoft... If it's not, how come MS is in the URL
>still? I didn't examine it too closely, yet. Is it in a frame or something?
Looking at the URI, we see that there's an @ before the first /. That's
the signal; it means that you're theoretically authenticating to the domain
between the @ and the /, and the information between the http:// and the @
is the authentication information.
>> >http://www.microsoft.com&item=q209354 at
>> >hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the authentication information. This is the actual domain.
Normally, in a site where authentication is required, the authentication
information is of the form username:password. But if no authentication is
require, the server will ignore any authentication information supplied,
and you can put anything you want there. Which is what was done here. It
could have been posted as http://hardware.no/nyheter/..., and it would have
worked just as well.
--
Jeff Zeitlin
jzeitlin at cyburban.com
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