4.2 Basic Authentication
| Topic Version | 1 | Published | 10/31/2016 | |
| For Standard | ETP v1.1 | |||
Basic authentication is as described in RFC-2617 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt) for HTTP connections. As in HTTP, basic authentication has many security issues, especially when used on an insecure connection (i.e., not SSL).