ChristopherP.29342 (Customer) asked a question.
Basic Authentication
We are looking for a Basic Authentication implementation using Okta for one of our Java Web application. Could you please help with a code snippet, on how to with okta.
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- victor.suciu1.4398562980308286E12 (Okta, Inc.)
Basic authentication works as follows:
When a client sends a request to the server, the server returns a 401 Unauthorized response status and provides information on how to authenticate with a WWW-Authenticate response header.
If the client is a browser, a built-in browser dialog will prompt the user for a username and password. A programmer has no control over what this dialog looks like.
When a browser sends the user's credentials to the server, the username and password are combined with a colon separator (username:password), base64-encoded, then added to the Authorization header like so: Authorization: Basic base64(username:password)
You can search trough our developer articles for more details but unfortunately there is no code snippet.
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Basic authentication works as follows:
When a client sends a request to the server, the server returns a 401 Unauthorized response status and provides information on how to authenticate with a WWW-Authenticate response header.
If the client is a browser, a built-in browser dialog will prompt the user for a username and password. A programmer has no control over what this dialog looks like.
When a browser sends the user's credentials to the server, the username and password are combined with a colon separator (username:password), base64-encoded, then added to the Authorization header like so: Authorization: Basic base64(username:password)
You can search trough our developer articles for more details but unfortunately there is no code snippet.