The AuthBasic Handler is a special Handler that will us AuthBasic to authenticate to a virtual host, and then play authorizations rules to allow access to the virtual
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The Handler will send a <acronymtitle="World Wide Web">WWW</acronym>-Authenticate header to the client, to request user and password, and then check the credentials using <acronymtitle="Simple Object Access Protocol">SOAP</acronym> getCookies web service. When session is granted, the Handler will then check the authorizations like the standard Handler.
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This can be useful to allow an third party application to access a virtual host with users credentials by sending a Basic challenge to it.
Configure the virtual host like other <ahref="../../documentation/2.0/configvhost.html"class="wikilink1"title="documentation:2.0:configvhost">protected virtual host</a> but use AuthBasic Handler instead of default Handler.
If LemonLDAP::NG portal is protected by <acronymtitle="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</acronym> with a self-signed certificate, you can add this line to accept it:
No parameters needed. But you have to allow sessions web services, see <ahref="../../documentation/2.0/soapsessionbackend.html"class="wikilink1"title="documentation:2.0:soapsessionbackend">SOAP sessions backend</a>.