[ale] How secure is http basic authentication?
Jim Lynch
ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Sat Apr 27 10:05:20 EDT 2013
On 04/27/2013 09:54 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> It's in the clear. It's just not obvious because it is base64 encoded.
>
> Phil
OK so that means I shouldn't use it without an ssl connection. That
pretty much rules out using it with any of my hosted accounts since they
don't do ssl without too much money for a cert. Fortunately I only have
one of those left. I'm slowly replacing my hosted accounts with VPS.
Thanks,
Jim.
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