DIY: Hands-on Base64
Get a brief introduction to Basic authentication methods with a code example.
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Overview
We will demonstrate simple authentication using the
Basic authentication is a very simple technique that doesn’t require cookies, session identifiers, or login pages. It will not guarantee that the provided credentials can be trusted, since there is only a simple Base64 encoding of the provided username and password.
The following diagram shows the steps involved in authentication processing:
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