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HTTP Basic Authentication credentials passed in URL and encryption

Will the username and password be automatically SSL encrypted? Is the same true for GETs and POSTs

Yes, yes yes.

The entire communication (save for the DNS lookup if the IP for the hostname isn’t already cached) is encrypted when SSL is in use.


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