How do I enable basic authentication in Web API?

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Tags

1. #manager
2. #authorize
3. #select
4. #authorization
5. #header
6. #authentication
7. #request
8. #authenticates
9. #actions
10. #client
11. #attribute
12. #itself
13. #controller
14. #basic
15. #setting
16. #enable
17. #features
18. #project