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piotrSikora on April 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embed...

...and how is that different from

    <a href="http://evilsite.com">microsoft.com</a>

?

sirclueless on April 19, 2012 [–]

It looks different in the status bar, which is the important bit.

piotrSikora on April 19, 2012 | [–]

Like Dylan16807 said - it doesn't. Chrome already hides "user:pass" bits in the status bar.

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