Basic access authentication: Difference between revisions

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# The username and password are combined with a single colon (:). This means that the username itself cannot contain a colon.

# The resulting string is encoded into an octet sequence. The character set to use for this encoding is by default unspecified, as long as it is compatible with US-ASCII, but the server may suggest the use of UTF-8 by sending the ''charset'' parameter.<ref name="RFC7617" />

# The resulting string is encoded using a variant of Base64 (+/ and with padding).

# The authorization method and a space character (e.g. "Basic ") is then prepended to the encoded string.