> Do they not run web servers on the open web or something?
Until AI crawlers chased me off of the web, I ran a couple of fairly popular websites. I just so rarely see anybody including passwords in the URLs anymore that I didn't really consider that as what the commenter was talking about.
Just about every crawler that tries probing for wordpress vulnerabilities does this, or includes them in the naked headers as a part of their deluge of requests.
Until AI crawlers chased me off of the web, I ran a couple of fairly popular websites. I just so rarely see anybody including passwords in the URLs anymore that I didn't really consider that as what the commenter was talking about.