==User Management==
By default, the HTTP server starts is started with no pre-defined predefined user. Users and passwords can be sent via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication HTTP basic access authentication] with each HTTP request. As an alternative, users and passwords can also be specified as command-line arguments or via the "user.basex.user" and "user.basex.password" system properties before the HTTP server is started.
With some browsers and with cURL, you can send specify the user name and password with each HTTP request within the request string as plain text, using the format <code>USER:PASSWORD@URL</code>. An example: