HTTP Basic Authentication

This is one of the oldest forms of HTTP authentication. In the earliest days of the web this what would be part of seeing a little drop down at the top of a web page where you would need to enter a username and password into your browser.

How does it look?

Basically we have:

• Authorization header

• With the keyword Basic followed by the username:password but where the username and password are encoded in Base64.

This fragment of Lua code in the translator makes it more clear how this looks:

Open

See the Confluence API for an example of an API which uses this method of authentication.

See Basic access authentication

and

See https://help.interfaceware.com/v6/basic-authentication