HTTPS and BASIC authentication

https ssl basic-authentication
Afriza N. Arief picture Afriza N. Arief · Aug 12, 2010 · Viewed 27.2k times · Source

When I use HTTP BASIC authentication along with HTTPS, are the username and password securely passed to the server?

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Answer

Don Dickinson picture Don Dickinson · Aug 12, 2010

yes. if you're using https the conversation with the web server is entirely encrypted.

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