Issue
What is the difference between Digest and Basic Authentication ?
Solution
Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to: the username, the password, a server supplied nonce value, the HTTP method and the requested URI.
Whereas Basic Authentication uses non-encrypted base64 encoding.
Therefore, Basic Authentication should generally only be used where transport layer security is provided such as https.
See RFC-2617 for all the gory details.
Answered By - Andy Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (PHPFixing Admin)
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