Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication

External

• HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt

Internal

• HTTP

Authorization Request Header

Authorization Request Header

Basic Authentication

The content of the "Authorization" header should be:

Authorization: Basic <base64_of_username:password>

For example, if the username is "testuser" and password is "testpassword", then the string "testuser:testpassword" is base64-encoded and assigned to the Authorization header as follows:

Authorization: Basic dGVzdHVzZXI6dGVzdHBhc3N3b3Jk