[http-auth] RFC 7617 on The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
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Subject: [http-auth] RFC 7617 on The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 7617
Title: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
Author: J. Reschke
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: September 2015
Mailbox: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
Pages: 15
Characters: 30163
Obsoletes: RFC 2617
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-07.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7617
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7617
This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
authentication scheme, which transmits credentials as user-id/
password pairs, encoded using Base64.
This document is a product of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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