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arg · 02-03-2004, 08:00 AM

The reason was that scammers would send people a URL like:

http://www.visa.com:[email protected]/

and fucking nimrods would see "www.visa.com" and enter
their credit card info. I can see why MS wants to cater to
nimrods, but I wish they'd allowed non-nimrods to enable
user:pw@ as an option.

02-03-2004, 08:00 AM
arg Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,164	The reason was that scammers would send people a URL like: http://www.visa.com:[email protected]/ and fucking nimrods would see "www.visa.com" and enter their credit card info. I can see why MS wants to cater to nimrods, but I wish they'd allowed non-nimrods to enable user:pw@ as an option.