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revno: 518
committer: Lars Helge Overland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
branch nick: dhis2-docbook-docs
timestamp: Tue 2012-05-01 11:44:23 +0200
message:
  Minor
modified:
  src/docbkx/en/dhis2_user_man_web_api.xml


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=== modified file 'src/docbkx/en/dhis2_user_man_web_api.xml'
--- src/docbkx/en/dhis2_user_man_web_api.xml	2012-05-01 09:18:56 +0000
+++ src/docbkx/en/dhis2_user_man_web_api.xml	2012-05-01 09:44:23 +0000
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
   <section>
     <title>Authentication</title>
     <para>In order to interoperate with the Web API you will have to authenticate using <emphasis role="italic">Basic authentication</emphasis>. Basic authentication is a technique for clients to send login credentials over HTTP to a web server. Technically speaking, the username is appended with a colon and the password, Base64-encoded, prefixed Basic  and   supplied as the value of the <emphasis role="italic">Authorization</emphasis> HTTP header. More formally that is<code> Authorization: Basic base64encode(username:password)</code> An important note is that this authentication scheme provides no security since the username and password is sent in plain text and can be easily decoded. Using it is  recommended only if the server is using SSL/TLS (HTTPS) to encrypt communication between itself and the client. Most DHIS 2 deployments typically use SSL today - consider it a hard requirement to provide secure interactions with the Web API.</para>
-    <para>Basic authenication was chosen for the DHIS 2 Web API because it is simple and straight-forward to use and has wide support in development frameworks.</para>
   </section>
   <section>
     <title>Date and period format</title>