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HTTP authentication is a method for a HTTP user agent to provide a user name and a certain proof confirming the user's identity when making a request. Various proofs define different HTTP Authentication methods, e.g. basic, forms, digest, or others.

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How to do HTTP authentication in android?

I am checking out the class org.apache.http.auth. Any more reference or example if anyone has?
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HTTP Basic Authentication with HTTPService Objects in Adobe Flex/AIR

I'm trying to request a HTTP resource that requires basic authorization headers from within an Adobe AIR application. I've tried manually adding the headers to the request, as well as using the ...
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Flex 3 - how to support HTTP Authentication URLRequest?

I have a Flex file upload script that uses URLRequest to upload files to a server. I want to add support for http authentication (password protected directories on the server), but I don't know how to ...
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How can I supress the browser's authentication dialog?

My web application has a login page that submits authentication credentials via an AJAX call. If the user enters the correct username and password, everything is fine, but if not, the following ...
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PHP_AUTH_USER not set?

For some reason, none of the code within if (isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) && isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) { // When the above is set, the code that is here will execute of ...
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Basic HTTP Authentication on iPhone

I'm trying to get a small twitter client running and I ran into a problem when testing API calls that require authentication. My password has special characters in it, so when I try to use the ...
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Rails/Rspec Make tests pass with http basic authentication

Here my http basic authentication in the application controller file (application_controller.rb) before_filter :authenticate protected def authenticate authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do ...
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How can I send HTTP Basic Authentication headers in Android?

I am not sure how to send HTTP Auth headers. I have the following HttpClient to get requests, but not sure how I can send requests? public class RestClient extends AsyncTask<String, Void, ...
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HTTP authentication between devise and iphone app

I'm new to ruby on rails but I want to send the data from my SQlite database from my iphone app to the rails web app. Like a "sync" service. I'm using devise for authentication for the web app. I ...
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Can I use HTTP Basic Authentication with Django?

We have a website running on Apache, access to which has a number of static pages protected via HTTP Basic authentication. I've written a new part of the site with Django using Django's built in ...
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GreaseMonkey script to auto login using HTTP authentication

I've got quite a few GreaseMonkey scripts that I wrote at my work which automatically log me into the internal sites we have here. I've managed to write a script for nearly each one of these sites ...
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HTTP Digest Authentication versus SSL

What is the difference between HTTP Digest Authentication and SSL from a performance, security and flexibility point of view?
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IIS7 and Authentication problems

i've got a stock standard ASP.NET web site, deployed to our development machine (internal machine in our server room). Now, this dev site can be accessed by both INTERNAL and EXTERNAL users. Now, in ...
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PHP Authentication (beginner)

I have recently started learning PHP. I made a basic website and wanted to basically password it. I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me why this doesn't work. I know it doesn't work because ...
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HTTP Authentication (Basic or Digest) in ASP Classic via IIS

I want to develop a website in ASP classic that uses HTTP Authentication against a database or password list that is under the control of the script. Ideally, the solution should involve no components ...

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