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Line 4: It was originally implemented by [[Ari Luotonen]] at [[CERN]] in 1993<ref>{{cite mailing list \|url=http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0882.html \|title=Announcing Access Authorization Documentation \|date=10 September 2022 \|access-date=7 February 2022 \|mailing-list=www-talk@w3.org \|last=Luotonen \|first=Ari}}</ref> and defined in the HTTP 1.0 specification in 1996.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#BasicAA \|title=Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 \|date=19 February 1996 \|website=www.w3.org \|publisher=W3C \|access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref> It is specified in {{IETF RFC\|7617}} from 2015, which obsoletes {{IETF RFC\|2617}} from 1999. ~~== Features ==~~ HTTP Basic authentication (BA) implementation is the simplest technique for enforcing [[access controls]] to web resources because it does not require [[HTTP cookie\|cookies]], session identifiers, or login pages; rather, HTTP Basic authentication uses standard fields in the [[HTTP header]]. == Security ==

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