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cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests

I’m not an infrastructure person. If the receiving web server doesn’t log the URI, and supposing the communication is encrypted with TLS, which removes the credentials from the URI, are there security concerns?

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I’m not 100% on this but I think GET requests are logged by default.

POST requests, normally used for passwords, don’t get logged by default.

BUT the Uri would get logged would get logged on both, so if the URI contained @username:Password then it’s likely all there in the logs

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GET requests are logged

That’s why I specified

the receiving web server doesn’t log the URI

in my question.

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Anyone who has access to any involved network infrastructure can trace the cleartext communication and extract the credentials.

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