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Not actually a standard.
Take a look at http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt

The folloing excerpt is for HTTP URLs. Note the sentence: "No user name or password is allowed."


3.3. HTTP

The HTTP URL scheme is used to designate Internet resources accessible using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

The HTTP protocol is specified elsewhere. This specification only describes the syntax of HTTP URLs.

An HTTP URL takes the form:

http://:/?

where and are as described in Section 3.1. If : is omitted, the port defaults to 80. No user name or password is allowed. is an HTTP selector, and is a query string. The is optional, as is the and its preceding "?". If neither nor is present, the "/" may also be omitted.

Within the and components, "/", ";", "?" are reserved. The "/" character may be used within HTTP to designate a hierarchical structure.
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