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Basic Auth header generator

Create an HTTP Basic authorization header locally.

Basic Auth header generator
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Builds “Basic ” plus Base64 of username:password encoded as UTF-8. Usernames cannot contain a colon. Basic Auth is reversible encoding and should only be sent over HTTPS; server support for UTF-8 varies.

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