[revServer]http authentication -

[Bob Sneidar]

Not sure, but as you must know, cleartext passwords are easily sniffable. As long as the web site is not serving up private or critical information, I suppose there's no harm, but if it is, then you should consider using https and having a form that gets the credentials. 

Bob


On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is revServer  able to read/get the username of an http authentication, if username and password are included in the url.
> 
> for example
> 
> http://JohnDoe:abcdefg@web.com  is the url the customer uses to connect to the server. Is it possible for revServer to get the username JohnDoe?
> 
> Or are username and password  removed by apache completely before passing the url to revServer?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
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