# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-07-23 15:11:45
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=461.msg5296#msg5296

I've updated the @p{(link}RPC wiki page@p{link)} for how the password stuff will work in Bitcoin 0.3.3. @p{par}

One nice side effect: you can prepare for the changes now; create a bitcoin.conf file with a username and password and modify your JSON-RPC code to do the HTTP Basic Authentication thing.  Old code will just ignore the .conf file and the Authorization: HTTP header. @p{par}

Question for everybody:  should I add a section to the wiki page describing, in detail, how to do HTTP Basic authentication?  PHP and Python make is really easy@p{--} just use the @p{(link}@s{(link)}@host:port/@p{link)} URL syntax.  I don't want to just duplicate the HTTP Basic authentication Wikipedia page. @p{brk}