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... user authentication, as the user
name and password are passed over the network in an unencrypted form.
This section provides the specification for a scheme that does not
send the password ...
... entity, which is
transmitted in cleartext across the physical network used as the
carrier. HTTP does not prevent additional authentication ...
... password over
the physical network. It is this problem which Digest Authentication
attempts to address ...
... The greatest threat to the type of transactions for which these
protocols are used is network snooping. This kind of transaction
...