Re: Cleartext Password display in NS Communicator

Holger Kanzog (holger@TLNET.DE)
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 19:55:52 +0200

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Fred Albrecht wrote:

> The following has been tested with Netscape Communicator 4.0 on NT 4 and
> 4.0b4 on Linux with the same results :

[..]

> The password is now plainly visible in the URL field :
> « ftp://user:passwd@host »

Appendix to my previous message:

It happens only when connecting over proxy Squid (1.1.10) and it appears
also in Squid's access.log.

Holger

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