What is this kind of URL called?

Question

http://admin:[email protected]/videostream.cgi

I didn't know that username and password could be set directly in the URL. How does this work? Is it standard? What search terms should I use to find out more about this?

Answer 1

It's a standard way of providing login credentials in the URL so it doesn't have to prompt you for them.

admin is the username, 123456 is the password. The hostname is 192.168.1.178 as usual. You're connecting through the http protocol, so HTTP authentication is used here to access the script.

Answer 2

It's the authority part of a URI scheme defined by RFC3986.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.2