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November 11, 2004
Urlencoded problems
It was quite common over the last few years to urlencode a username and password into an URL to deliver a digital product. The release of SP1 from Microsoft prevents this from working in Internet Explorer. This is just a reminder to those of you who might be using this construct.
Here is an example of the URL: http://username:password@yourdomain.com/fd/some.pdf
A page on a client's site that seldom gets used incorporated this method for a didgital download. Since it worked in my browser (Firefox) I had forgotten about this problem. So naturally the fix is to send the, the password protected URL with the username and password not included in the URL.
If you have been having customer complain about not being able to access a download, it might be a good idea to check and make sure you're not using this method.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at November 11, 2004 10:55 AM
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