Interaction Summary
The steps of the technique are:
- An unauthenticated user agent requests a web page from a website, via the HTTP protocol.
- The website returns an HTML web page to the unauthenticated user agent. The web page consists minimally of an HTML-based web form which prompts the user for their username and password, along with a button labeled "login" or "submit".
- The user fills in his username and password, and then presses the submit button.
- The user agent sends the web form data (which includes the username and password) to the web server.
- The website implementation, running on the web server, performs some verification and validation operations on the web-form data. If successful, the website considers the user agent to be authenticated.
Read more about this topic: HTTP+HTML Form-based Authentication
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