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Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info |
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Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:25:12 -0500 (EST) |
991108 Klaus Weide & Philip Webb debated a proposal by Leonid Pauzner:
LP> When I start with ftp://user:address@hidden
LP> ^^^^^^
LP> I see that prefix with username and password unencripted
LP> for all URLs shown from lynx: in Advanced mode statusline
LP> while navigating across directories; in History/VisitedLinks/Info
KW> Using a password in a URL is so hopelessly bad
KW> I wouldn't bother trying to hide it.
PW> IOW "Traffic conditions & speeding on this road are so bad
PW> you shouldn't put a pedestrian crossing there
PW> because people might get hurt using it:
PW> they should just stay on their own side of the road".
KW> There are already overpasses that have been built
KW> so people can cross that road safely:
KW> don't put the password into the URL, be prompted for it.
that's a better way of putting it (smile).
so maybe an alternative is to erect barriers along the sidewalks
(a la England) to prevent people crossing elsewhere: ie Lynxwise,
refuse to accept an URL of the above form, with an appropriate message.
but LP's approach (in his reply to you) should still work, shouldn't it?
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- lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/11/08
- Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/08
- Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/08
- Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/11/08
- patch (was: Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/11/15
- Re: patch (was: Re: lynx-dev ftp://user:address@hidden too much unencripted info), Klaus Weide, 1999/11/17
lynx-dev Suggestion for merging the libcurses and libslang code, vtailor, 1999/11/08
Re: lynx-dev Suggestion for merging the libcurses and libslang code, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/08