Basic access authentication: Difference between revisions

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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 2616 (''Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1'') and RFC 2617 (''HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication'').

== Example [http://www.01download.net Free Download Software]==

Here is a typical transaction between an HTTP client and an HTTP server running on the local machine (localhost). It is comprised of the following steps.