How is this permissible?

Terrence Koeman root at mediamonks.net
Thu Sep 20 07:16:21 UTC 2001


Yes, the @ sign has a purpose...

If you need to enter a username/password for a site you can do it like
this:

http://username:password@host.domain.tld/
ftp://username:password@host.domain.tld/

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Regards,

Terrence Koeman

Technical Director/Administrator
MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl)

Please quote all replies in correspondence.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of I Can't Dance
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:43 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: How is this permissible?
>
>
> 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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