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Today, I have to find the way to authenticate my application with web server via HTTP basic authentication. And this is how it is done.

1. Pack username and password into this format

username:password

such as

janitor:topsecret

2. Then encode it with base64 so that our sample will become

amFuaXRvcjp0b3BzZWNyZXQ=

3. Add "Authorization" header to HTTP session

Authorization: Basic amFuaXRvcjp0b3BzZWNyZXQ=

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication