• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I thought basic Auth was where you base64 encoded the username and password and sent it as the Authorization header

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      7 months ago

      That is also a form of basic auth, you still pass the credentials like “username:password”, optionally base64 encoded but I don’t believe that’s required.

      Edit: actually, after looking into it a bit more, it seems like passing credentials in the url will actually cause the browser to send it as an authorization header instead. So in essence it’s doing the same thing.