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  2. Basic access authentication - Wikipedia

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    In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials>, where <credentials> is the Base64 encoding of ID ...

  3. HTML form - Wikipedia

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    HTML 4 introduced the <label> tag, which is intended to represent a caption in a user interface, and can be associated with a specific form control by specifying the id attribute of the control in the label tag's for attribute.

  4. List of HTTP header fields - Wikipedia

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    HTTP. HTTP header fields are a list of strings sent and received by both the client program and server on every HTTP request and response. These headers are usually invisible to the end-user and are only processed or logged by the server and client applications. They define how information sent/received through the connection are encoded (as in ...

  5. User agent - Wikipedia

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    User agent. On the Web, a user agent is a software agent responsible for retrieving and facilitating end-user interaction with Web content. [1] This includes all web browsers, such as Google Chrome and Safari, some email clients, standalone download managers like youtube-dl, and other command-line utilities like cURL . The user agent is the ...

  6. Registered user - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A registered user is a user of a website, program, or other systems who has previously registered. Registered users normally provide some sort of credentials (such as a username or e-mail address, and a password) to the system in order to prove their identity: this is known as logging in. Systems intended for use by the general public ...

  7. User (computing) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name ). [a] Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users .

  8. User identifier - Wikipedia

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    User identifier. Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and other access control criteria, is used to determine which system resources a user can access. The password file maps textual user names to UIDs.

  9. Authentication - Wikipedia

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    Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicating a person or thing's identity, authentication is the process of verifying that ...