> # Basic Authentication

> Jetty supports basic HTTP authentication with it's AuthHandler class. This site has 2 realms configured, called "Basic" and "Other".

> Click here to fetch this page via the "Basic" realm (user=jetty password=jetty).

> Click here to fetch this page via the "Other" realm (user=other password=other).

> Note that these links use request translation to guide the authenticated requests back to this page. The dump demo also shows the operation of basic authentication.