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We can do HTTP basic authentication URL with @ in password. We have to pass the credentials appended with the URL. The username and password must be added with the format − https://username:password@URL.
Basic authentication is simple and convenient, but it is not secure. It should only be used to prevent unintentional access from nonmalicious parties or used in combination with an encryption technology such as SSL.
It is indeed not possible to pass the username and password via query parameters in standard HTTP auth. Instead, you use a special URL format, like this: http://username:[email protected]/ -- this sends the credentials in the standard HTTP "Authorization" header.
The HTTP Authorization request header can be used to provide credentials that authenticate a user agent with a server, allowing access to a protected resource. The Authorization header is usually, but not always, sent after the user agent first attempts to request a protected resource without credentials.
Will the username and password be automatically SSL encrypted? Is the same true for GETs and POSTs
Yes, yes yes.
The entire communication (save for the DNS lookup if the IP for the hostname isn't already cached) is encrypted when SSL is in use.
Yes, it will be encrypted.
You'll understand it if you simply check what happens behind the scenes.
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