I have a question about http security. Let's say on my webserver I had a directory that I was to issue a username/password to access this directory. But lets say if someone were to telnet to my web server on port 80 of course and issue the command
Get /protected/directory HTTP/1.1
Would it display in Mime::Base64 coding , The list of the username/password for this directory ?. Like in the form Basic : erwweDdrerw ==
My theories on this are a little mixed up..
Any help would be appreciated..