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Line 5: 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 (''Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0'') although further information regarding security issues may be found in RFC 2068 (''Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1'') and RFC 2617 (''HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication''). == Example ==

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