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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Howto/Web_mechanics/What_is_a_URL
What specific section or headline is this issue about?
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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
Missing information about username and password. This is a full URL:
https://user:password@example.com:80/dir/index.html?q=name#id
Not adding this information is a fundamental flaw.
The URL class contain information about username and password, but the main article don't show how to add them to the URL:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL
What did you expect to see?
username and password in URL
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
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en-us/learn_web_development/howto/web_mechanics/what_is_a_url - MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Howto/Web_mechanics/What_is_a_URL
- GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/learn_web_development/howto/web_mechanics/what_is_a_url/index.md
- Last commit: 479ea4c
- Document last modified: 2025-04-29T15:21:21.000Z
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