Re: low-level http authentification

See RFC2617, it is all described there.

The protocol is pretty simple, but is a bit hard to compute in the
head.. Basic authentication identification is a base64 encoded
"username:password" string.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Thomas Hagen Trocha wrote:
> 
>  Hi there,
> 
> as I wanted to test my squid-proxy I tried to do low-level access via telnet on
> port 80 on my
> Webserver. No Problem. But does anyone know how to handle the basic
> Authentification??
> 
> Thanx, yours Thomas