the 'userinfo' component of a URL is strongly disrecommended except
   in those rare cases where the 'password' parameter is intended to be
   public.

8. Acknowledgements

   This document was derived from RFC 1738 [RFC1738] and RFC 1808
   [RFC1808]; the acknowledgements in those specifications still apply.
   In addition, contributions by Gisle Aas, Martin Beet, Martin Duerst,
   Jim Gettys, Martijn Koster, Dave Kristol, Daniel LaLiberte, Foteos
   Macrides, James Marshall, Ryan Moats, Keith Moore, and Lauren Wood
   are gratefully acknowledged.

9. References

   [RFC2277] Alvestrand, H., "IETF Policy on Character Sets and
             Languages", BCP 18, RFC 2277, January 1998.

   [RFC1630] Berners-Lee, T., "Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A
             Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses
             of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web",
             RFC 1630, June 1994.

   [RFC1738] Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., and M. McCahill, Editors,
             "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, December 1994.

   [RFC1866] Berners-Lee T., and D. Connolly, "HyperText Markup Language
             Specification -- 2.0", RFC 1866, November 1995.

   [RFC1123] Braden, R., Editor, "Requirements for Internet Hosts --
             Application and Support", STD 3, RFC 1123, October 1989.

   [RFC822]  Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
             Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, August 1982.

   [RFC1808] Fielding, R., "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", RFC
             1808, June 1995.

   [RFC2046] Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
             Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046,
             November 1996.





 
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   [RFC1736] Kunze, J., "Functional Recommendations for Internet
             Resource Locators", RFC 1736, February 1995.

   [RFC2141] Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997.

   [RFC1034] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities",
             STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987.

   [RFC2110] Palme, J., and A. Hopmann, "MIME E-mail Encapsulation of
             Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)", RFC 2110, March
             1997.

   [RFC1737] Sollins, K., and L. Masinter, "Functional Requirements for
             Uniform Resource Names", RFC 1737, December 1994.

   [ASCII]   US-ASCII. "Coded Character Set -- 7-bit American Standard
             Code for Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4-1986.

   [UTF-8]   Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646",
             RFC 2279, January 1998.