2.4.5 Basic Authentication

(require web-server/http/basic-auth)

An implementation of HTTP Basic Authentication.

(extract-user-pass heads)

→ (or/c false/c (cons/c bytes? bytes?))

heads : (listof header?)

Returns a pair of the username and password from the authentication header in heads if they are present, or #f.

Example: (extract-user-pass (request-headers/raw req)) might return (cons #"aladin" #"open sesame").