basic authentication

Handles basic authentication (user name and password) and cookies.

The WWW-Authenticate header for basic authentication (used most often) is constructed as following:

Basic Authentication is, therefore, typically used over HTTPS.

Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication.

For the authentication, MCM shall have basic authentication which has user ID and password.

Microsoft web based applications usually only support the authentication methods basic authentication or windows integrated authentication (Kerberos) provided by the Internet Information Server.

Each frame contains the BSSID, the SSID, and some information on basic authentication and encryption.

Rather, HTTP Basic authentication uses static, standard HTTP headers which means that no handshakes have to be done in anticipation.

This credential includes the basic authentication information that standard Grid proxy credentials contain, but it also includes role and capability information from the VOMS server.

HTTP Basic authentication (BA) implementation is the simplest technique for enforcing access controls to web resources because it doesn't require cookies, session identifier and login pages.

Using account aggregation to access a web based backend system that is configured to use basic authentication results in sending a URL that contains user name and password.

Two-factor authentication is commonly found in electronic computer authentication, where basic authentication is the process of a requesting entity presenting some evidence of its identity to a second entity.

By turning off Basic authentication without offering a suitable alternative for FOSS clients, Twitter effectively made it impossible for FOSS client applications to continue functioning normally.

However, because password-protected Web sites (HTTP Basic authentication) use the same mechanism as HTTP errors, Internet Optimizer makes it impossible for the user to access password-protected sites.

And exactly as you said earlier, Leo, what Twitter did recently, which is really what brought this to my attention, is they shut down their traditional username and password base, so-called "basic authentication," and they said - I mean, and they've had the OAuth there for, like, more than a year.

The username and password which are integrated into the Twitter URL for basic authentication are hardcoded in my example, but a more ambitious solution might be to create a preference page for the user and keep the information around with the HTML5 feature, which Chrome conveniently happens to support.