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How can I test the basic authentication in  <http://ktor.io/quickstart/guides/api.html#authentication> using the IDE rest client? I’ve tried
```
POST <http://user:password@localhost:8080/snippets>
Content-Type: application/json
WWW-Authenticate: Basic myrealm

{
  "snippet": {
    "text": "heyho"
  }
}
```
which works, but I was wondering if I could also put the credentials into the request header in some way?

In order to send credentials for BASIC authentication, a client must send a header `Authorization: Basic $BASE64_USER_PASS`

As far as I remember you can generate it by "Generate Authorization Header"

Please note that there is no need for client to send `WWW-Authenticate` header: it will be ignored by a server anyway 