- From: Igor Clark <igor.clark@forefrontconsulting.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:12:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Fish <fish@infidels.org>
- cc: www-talk@w3.org
Hi
> Apparently, according to RFC2616, the 401 response you received should have
> included a "WWW-Authenticate:" header. This header contains the challenge. The
> response to the challenge would, it seems, be entered in the "Authorization:"
> header on a subsequent request.
This is right. The header you have to supply is
Authorization: <username:password>
(without the < and >). As I understand it, the username/password pair
must be base-64 encoded.
Igor.
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