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Different No credentials can need to be supplied if a default user is assigned to a service by specifying local init parametersin the {{Code|web.xml}} file. In the following example, an alternative the user {{Code|rest-user }} is specified for the REST service:
→Authentication
==Authentication==
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
</syntaxhighlight>
If the HTTP server is started with no pre-defined user, the credentials must be passed on by the client via [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication Basic Authentication] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_authentication Digest Authentication] (, depending on the server setting)authentication method specified at startup via {{AUTHMETHOD}}.
With cURL, internet browsers, and other tools, you can specify basic authentication credentials within the request string as plain text, using the format <code>USER:PASSWORD@URL</code>. An example:
