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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.
Basic authentication is enabled by default. There is a property of BasicProcessingFilter called ignoreFailure which affects what happens during a failed authentication attempt. By default, it is false.
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