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by 9dev 1115 days ago
Well. Hyperlinks are part of the spec though, and if you modify them and expect clients to know how to deal with that, you’ll need to modify the specification, and that implies you need to define how those changes affect caching, Proxies, and the security model. There’s a pretty good reason you send credentials in a header, not the URL. What’s my browser supposed to show in the history?

What you’re looking for is a browser extension, not a haphazard URI change.