August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 9m
English
Basic authentication is the default mechanism if the developer uses an authentication mechanism without defining it. With this authentication mechanism, if the user is not authenticated when they send a request, then a dialog box requesting a username and password is returned. This mechanism is not completely safe, because the username and password are easily captured, making man-in-the-middle attacks possible. To use this authentication mechanism, it is recommended to use a secure transport mechanism, such as SSL (HTTPS) or a VPN. The following figure represents a Java EE tutorial showing what happens when basic authentication is used:
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