Back Autenticació d'accés bàsica Catalan Basic access authentication Czech Basic Authentication German Autenticación de acceso básica Spanish اصالت‌سنجی برای دسترسی‌های اولیه Persian אימות גישה בסיסי HE Basic access authentication Italian Basic認証 Japanese 기본 인증 Korean HTTP基本认证 Chinese

Basic access authentication

In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials>, where <credentials> is the Base64 encoding of ID and password joined by a single colon :.

It was originally implemented by Ari Luotonen at CERN in 1993[1] and defined in the HTTP 1.0 specification in 1996.[2] It is specified in RFC 7617 from 2015, which obsoletes RFC 2617 from 1999.

  1. ^ Luotonen, Ari (10 September 2022). "Announcing Access Authorization Documentation". [email protected] (Mailing list). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0". www.w3.org. W3C. 19 February 1996. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

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