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When the user agent wants to send authentication credentials to the server, it may use the ''Authorization'' header field.
 
The ''Authorization'' header field is constructed as follows:<ref name="RFC7617">{{cite webIETF|urlrfc=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7617#7617|section-=2.1|title=The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme|first=Julian|last=Reschke|website=tools.ietf.org}}</ref>
 
# The username and password are combined with a single colon ({{code|:}}). This means that the username itself cannot contain a colon.