Latest IE patch breaking non username:password at encoded websites?

Tue Feb 3 17:40:08 UTC 2004

Herman Harless  [2/3/2004 10:56 PM] :
> We're starting to take complaints from folks who have installed the
> latest IE patch about various broken website functionality.  The
> complaints are not related to folks trying to use the username:password@
> functionality that was removed by the patch.
> 
> Is anyone taking similar calls / seeing similar issues? 

Yup - that is a "feature" supposed to avoid credit card phish sites that 
  try to spoof ebay with billing.ebay.com at some.evil.server/billing etc

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