For more information on basic authentication and LDAP, see:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt

RFC 2617, "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication."

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

RFC 2616 "Hypertext Transfer Protocol-HTTP/1.1."

 

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)