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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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