[users@httpd] What is the purpose or possible use of the @ in URL's

[Arturo P <pe...@flashmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm very curious as to the functionality of the @ in urls. I run a user 
supported website off Apache. And I'm curious if i could do something 
such as redurect a user to a specific path, such as 
http://username@domain.com would be redirected to 
http://users.domain.com/username.

Thank you



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Re: [users@httpd] What is the purpose or possible use of the @ in URL's

[Arturo P <pe...@flashmail.com>]

Yah I've already considered the Javascript hack. Kinda untidy as you so 
noted. Pity though. Would have been a nice trick. I'll do the javascript 
way as a last resort.

Thanks for you answer.
Peace

Brian Dessent wrote:

>Arturo P wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I'm very curious as to the functionality of the @ in urls. I run a user
>>supported website off Apache. And I'm curious if i could do something
>>such as redurect a user to a specific path, such as
>>http://username@domain.com would be redirected to
>>http://users.domain.com/username.
>>    
>>
>
>The part in front of the @ represents the username for authentication. 
>So it's not sent to Apache as part of the URL in the request.  You might
>be able to do what you want with mod_rewrite by making a rule that
>matches requests with that username.  But unless the page that is being
>requested requires authentication the browser will not send a username
>at all.  So in the case of a normal URL apache has no idea what's in
>front of the @, just as everything in a URL after the '#' is meant to
>refer to a specific anchor the page and is not sent by the browser
>either.
>
>YOu might be able to do what you want with a client-side javascript
>hack, but it wouldn't be pretty.  You could have it check
>document.location and see if it contains a username, and if so do a
>redirect to the appropriate user page URL.  But the user would still be
>fetching the first page and then reloading the new page after the
>javascript executed.
>
>Brian
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Re: [users@httpd] What is the purpose or possible use of the @ in URL's

[Brian Dessent <br...@dessent.net>]

Arturo P wrote:

> I'm very curious as to the functionality of the @ in urls. I run a user
> supported website off Apache. And I'm curious if i could do something
> such as redurect a user to a specific path, such as
> http://username@domain.com would be redirected to
> http://users.domain.com/username.

The part in front of the @ represents the username for authentication. 
So it's not sent to Apache as part of the URL in the request.  You might
be able to do what you want with mod_rewrite by making a rule that
matches requests with that username.  But unless the page that is being
requested requires authentication the browser will not send a username
at all.  So in the case of a normal URL apache has no idea what's in
front of the @, just as everything in a URL after the '#' is meant to
refer to a specific anchor the page and is not sent by the browser
either.

YOu might be able to do what you want with a client-side javascript
hack, but it wouldn't be pretty.  You could have it check
document.location and see if it contains a username, and if so do a
redirect to the appropriate user page URL.  But the user would still be
fetching the first page and then reloading the new page after the
javascript executed.

Brian

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