URI with embedded password
ID uri_with_password
DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft
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URI whose user information part contains a password, as in scheme://user:password@host/. RFC 3986 deprecates this form, but database and message broker connection URIs still use it. The user name may be empty, as in Redis URIs.
- Parent datatype
- Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
uri - Categories
- Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens), Internet
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 78/100 · missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- detect-secrets, Semgrep, TruffleHog
Regular expression
^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+.-]*://[^\s:/?#@]*:[^\s/?#@]+@[^\s/?#]+(?:[/?#]\S*)?$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| postgresql://user:secret@localhost | Example connection URI from the PostgreSQL documentation |
| postgresql://user@localhost invalid | User name without a password |
Sources
- doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.2.1
- doc: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING-URIS
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/uri_with_password - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/secrets/uri_with_password.yamlon GitHub