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HTTP Basic authentication scheme (RFC 7617).
Base64 username:password pair carried in the Authorization request
header (Basic <base64(user:pass)>). Used by CardDAV/CalDAV servers that do
not support OAuth. Credentials are only encoded, not encrypted: the scheme
must be used over TLS in production.
Modules§
- basic
- HTTP Basic authentication scheme: credentials are sent as a
base64-encoded
username:passwordpair in theAuthorizationrequest header (RFC 7617 §2).