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One advantage of the basic authentication scheme is that it is supported by almost all popular web browsers. It is rarely used on normal [[Internet]] [[Website|web sites]] but is suitable for small, private systems. A later mechanism, [[digest access authentication]], was developed in order to replace the basic authentication scheme and enable credentials to be passed in a relatively secure manner over an otherwise insecure channel.

The basic authentication scheme was originally defined by RFC 1945 although further information regarding security issues may be found in RFC 2068 and RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication).

== Example ==