13.8. Authentication on the Web
This section discusses different authentication methods for Web clients and secure connections between a Web client and Domino server.
13.8.1. HTTP Basic Authentication
The communications protocol used by the World Wide Web is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP includes a simple user ID and password- based authentication scheme known as Basic Authentication. The implementation of basic authentication is server-specific, but in general all servers use it for two purposes:
As a mechanism to identify which user is accessing the server
To limit users to accessing specific pages (identified as Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs).
How Basic Authentication works
Basic Authentication uses a challenge mechanism ...
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