how to get a host with an @ sign!?

[Kevin Darcy]

Christof Drescher wrote:

> Hi,
> some providers currently offer the possibility to use @-DOmains, e.g.
> instead of an ordinary www.mycompany.org or a host like
> office.mycompany.org you see
>
> jim at mycompany.org and office at mycompany.org
>
> which can be used as a browser url like http://jim@mycompany.org.
>
> I need to do that myself as well, but don't know how to achieve this.

Your browser isn't interpreting the @ or anything to the left of it as
part of the hostname. Look in the HTTP specs to see how "jim" is being
interpreted in the above URL; if it means anything special, then only
the web server is differentiating it. This is not a DNS issue.


- Kevin