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More details about basic and digest HTTP authentication are available here: {{Internal||}}
More details about basic and digest HTTP authentication are available here: {{Internal|Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication|Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication}}
 
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt

Revision as of 19:46, 21 February 2017

External

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.8

Internal

Overview

A user agent that wishes to authenticate itself with a server may include an "Authorization: " request-header field with the request. The Authorization field value contains credentials:

Authorization: <credentials>

More details about basic and digest HTTP authentication are available here:

Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication