Title: Requests_Auth_Basic
Published: August 16, 2016
Last modified: November 2, 2022

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# class Requests_Auth_Basic {}

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Methods](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/?output_format=md#methods)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/?output_format=md#source)

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Basic Authentication provider

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

Provides a handler for Basic HTTP authentication via the Authorization header.

## 󠀁[Methods](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/?output_format=md#methods)󠁿

| Name | Description | 
| [Requests_Auth_Basic::__construct](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/__construct/) | Constructor | 
| [Requests_Auth_Basic::curl_before_send](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/curl_before_send/) | Set cURL parameters before the data is sent | 
| [Requests_Auth_Basic::fsockopen_header](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/fsockopen_header/) | Add extra headers to the request before sending | 
| [Requests_Auth_Basic::getAuthString](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/getauthstring/) | Get the authentication string (user:pass) | 
| [Requests_Auth_Basic::register](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/register/) | Register the necessary callbacks |

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_auth_basic/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

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