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{{Short description|Access control method for the HTTP network communication protocol}}

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In the context of an [[HTTP]] transaction, '''basic access authentication''' is a method for an [[User Agent Profiling|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 <code>Authorization: Basic &lt;credentials></code>, where <code>&lt;credentials></code> is the [[Base64]] encoding of ID and password joined by a single colon <code>:</code>.