Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 12/22/07 00:03

"Betikci Boris" <pardust@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1b3de3d4-2953-4c1d-b0fe-9ab9078a5433@r60g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> The usage is something like that;
> $url = 'http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor';

That'll work - but bear in mind that there's no LESS secure way of sending
passwords than via the URL.
Not only does it go over the net unencoded, but it also remains in a variety
of "history" records.

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