mleku on Nostr: no, it's not like that, lightning addresses also use this, it's borrowed from email ...

no, it's not like that, lightning addresses also use this, it's borrowed from email and that was originally borrowed from ... i forget... maybe telnet

protocol://username:password@address

this is the basis of it, i think there is an RFC for it and all

in http, this has generally equated to username:password being parsed into http headers in some way in the request, iirc

for humans to read it, what you have proposed is fine, but for web servers you have to say where that username is going, and i say a path prefix is the simplest

you presumably would do it with subdirectories right? this is the standard for http file servers, and git servers are literally this, each subdiretctory.git is literally a folder, and inside it is what in the "not bare" version on your system when you "git clone" if you add the extra part `--bare` to the git clone command it puts it in the format that the http git service is expecting, on the client side

so you see what i'm saying, you have to define a route remapping, and for clarity of implementation, you should recommend a preferred method