> Why not? Microsoft has broken IE so that it no longer works with
> Internet standard URLs.

Er.... that would be "Microsoft FIXED IE to conform to Internet Standards
(or RFC). There is NO standard that says browsers MUST support "@" as part
of a URL fot http/https requests. If you know where such standard is
stipulated, please reference it.

>It may very well be true that the world would be
> better off without the username:password URL syntax, but for Microsoft
> to just unilaterally decide to axe that syntax is, IMHO, wrong.=20

MS did not unilaterally decide to axe this. This "feature" was added into
IE just to make life easier for Windows users. Now that it's been proven
to cause more havocs than its convenience, MS is actually coming back into
compliance by removing it.

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