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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:35:43PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Brett Glass, and lo! it spake thus:
> At 03:15 AM 12/11/2003, bruce@nikkel.com wrote:
>   
> >If the basic auth string was not included in an http request, the
> >webserver would generate a error 401 (Unauthorized). Check out RFC 2617
> >(HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication).
> 
> True. But does it authenticate again? Or merely recognize that you're
> the same person you were before and let you through?

HTTP AUTH sends the user/pass strings with every request (more precisely,
the browser caches what you put in, and sends it every time the server
returns a 401 with the same realm name.)


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