How to setup DIGEST authentication for an application deploy to EAP 6
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Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to the the username, the password, a server supplied nonce value, the HTTP method, and the requested URI.
Whereas Basic Authentication uses unencrypted base64 encoding. Therefore Basic Authentication should generally only be used where transport layer security is provided such as https.
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