Basic Authentication: Warning

Basic Authentication is analogous to simply "closing a door" to parts of your Web site. It will prevent the casual or polite users from "opening the door", but will not prevent someone mildly determined to walking in.

Two issues that contribute to the lack of security and privacy are:

• the content is transmitted over the network in plaintext
• the usernames and passwords (submitted with each HTTP request) is transmitted over the network in plaintext