[Bug 26586] IXMLHTTPRequest basic authentication doesn't work

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26586

--- Comment #17 from Nikolay Sivov  2013-03-17 12:23:47 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> > http://username:password@location
>
> Is that still supported in Windows, I had thought it was removed for security
> reasons.

I'm not sure what these reasons could be. In wine it works like that:

- you pass full uri including userinfo to urlmon;
- urlmon extracts username/password from it and passes it to wininet;
- wininet does its job as usual.

So basically it's just a way to pass userinfo to urlmon as I see it.