[Yum] Using yum against password protected http repositories

[Ryan Tomayko]

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:22, Eric V. Smith wrote:
> The thing that was removed from IE was support for username at password in
> http URL's, not any encoding.  

Ahh.. That makes much more sense. Thanks.

> The argument was that it's unsafe and that there's no non-obsolete RFC 
> that specifies it.  From my reading of the ensuing ruckus, the "unsafe" 
> part is a series of IE bugs, and the RFC issue is debatable, but 
> probably correct.

Hmm, yea, I wasn't aware of that being deprecated anywhere. I'll have to
play a little catch-up on URI related specs this weekend. I know there's
been a ton of activity wrt URIs in the past year or so. 

Thanks,
- Ryan