• bleistift2@feddit.de
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    cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests

    I’m not an infrastructure person. If the receiving web server doesn’t log the URI, and supposing the communication is encrypted with TLS, which removes the credentials from the URI, are there security concerns?

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      Anyone who has access to any involved network infrastructure can trace the cleartext communication and extract the credentials.

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        What do you mean by any involved network infrastructure? The URI is encrypted by TLS, you would only see the host address/domain unless you had access to it after decryption on the server.

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      Even if the destination doesn’t log GET components, there could be corporate proxies that MITM that might log the URL. Corporate proxies usually present an internally trusted certificate to the client.