File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2617

Author:

J. Reschke

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpauth (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7617

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Abstract

This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication scheme, which transmits credentials as user-id/ password pairs, encoded using Base64.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.