Crypto & Encoding
Basic Auth Generator
Turn a username and password into an HTTP Basic header and curl example.
Credentials
Base64 is encoding, not encryption — always send Basic auth over HTTPS.
Authorization header
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46czNjcmV0
curl example
curl -H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46czNjcmV0" https://api.example.com/v1/status