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What makes submitting a plaintext password in an Auth header worse than submitting a plaintext password in a POST body?
by thekyle 7y ago
What makes submitting a plaintext password in an Auth header worse than submitting a plaintext password in a POST body?
- cp9 7y agothere's no way to log out, the browser has to store it instead of a session cookie which can be invalidated if it's stolen. plus what's in this comment https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/988/is-basic-auth-secure-if-done-over-https#comment209113_17216 https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/988/is-basic-au...
- thekyle 7y agoThanks, I didn't realize that the password was re-sent for every request to the site.