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by gabemart 4955 days ago
Huh, I had no idea that feature had been deprecated. I guess it's been a little longer since I used it than I thought.
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It was used for lots of http://famous-website.com:long-token-nobody-will-ever-read@p... style attacks.

Microsoft's solution to the problem may not have been ideal, but at least that was the reasoning behind it.

Edit: And what do you see once you click post? Hacker news ironically proving Microsoft's point. It's a wonderful world we live in.