title: Embedding User + Password data for HTTP Basic Access Authentication in Querystring
body: <p>We're trying to test an API that requires HTTP Basic Access Authentication credentials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) in the request. </p>
  
  <p>Ideally, we could just test the API using a web browser by putting all API parameters in the URL querystring, but we haven't yet found a way to encode the HTTP Basic Access Authentication credentials (username and password) in the querystring.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know a way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Thus far, we've tried:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://username:password@mydomain.com/" rel="noreferrer">https://username:password@mydomain.com/</a> </p>
  
  <p>...without success.</p>