HTTP Basic Authentication

HTTP Basic Authentication is an authentication protocol defining how to encode username and password within HTTP Authorization header. HTTP Authorization header consists of two parts: authorization scheme and authorization parameters.

Authorization: [authorization scheme] [authorization parameters]

For HTTP Basic Authentication, the scheme value is basic. The authorization parameters should include user credentials in the following format username:password encoded in Base64.

Authorization: Basic [Base64(username:password)]

Example

Credentials	Value
username	korap-user
password	user-password
Base64(username:password)	a29yYXAtdXNlcjp1c2VyLXBhc3N3b3Jk

The authorization header for the credentials described above:

Authorization: Basic a29yYXAtdXNlcjp1c2VyLXBhc3N3b3Jk