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Basic authentication is part of the HTTP specification. It is simple but relatively inflexible. Acegi Security implements Basic authentication using BasicProcessingFilter and BasicProcessingFilterEntryPoint.

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On a Linux system, you can run wget --header='Authorization: Basic am9lOnBhc3N3b3Jk' --output-document='out.html' http://localhost:8080/pentaho/Navigate to test that basic authentication is working properly.

Request Parameter Authentication

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