You used to be able to put HTTP basic authentication into the URL in the format http://username:password@hostname-or-ip.example.com/ - modern browsers are removing support for the "username:passord@" part because people would put a legit domain in the username:password@ part to fool users. (i.e., http://cnn.com:article123456@fakenews.example.com/ which would actually take you to fakenews.example.com while sending a username of "cnn.com" and a password of "article123456")