The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
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- Publisher
- IETF
- Doc Type
- Standard
- Pages
- 15
- Abstract
- This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication scheme, which transmits credentials as user-id/ password pairs, encoded using Base64.
- Publication Date
- 2015-09-01
- Status Note
- Proposed Standard
- DOI
10.17487/RFC7617- Link
- https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7617
- Author(s)
- Julian Reschke
- Keyword(s)
- HTTP, Authentication Scheme
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Normative Reference(s)
- IETF RFC 20 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 2978 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 3629 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
- IETF RFC 4648 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 5198 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 5234 [Active, Amended*]
- IETF RFC 6365 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 7235 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 7613 [Superseded*]
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 [Active]
- IETF RFC 2617 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 2818 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 2831 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 3875 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 5246 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 6973 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 7231 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 7615 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 7616 [Active*]
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- IETF RFC 7616 [Active*]