A client is attempting to log in to a web application that requires authentication.

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A client is attempting to log in to a web application that requires authentication. The following HTTP headers are sent by the client:

GET /owa/ HTTP/1.1

Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=

User-Agent: curl/7.26.0

Host: 10.0.0.14

Accept: */*

Accept-EncodinG. gzip,deflate

The web server is responding with the following HTTP headers:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

Content-TypE. text/html

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5

WWW-AuthenticatE. NTLM

DatE. Wed, 16 Aug 1977 19:12:31 GMT

Content-LengtH. 1293

The client has checked the login credentials and believes the correct details are being entered.

What is the reason the destination web server is sending an HTTP 401 response?

The username and password are incorrect.

The server has an incorrect date configured.

The client is using the wrong type of browser.

The wrong authentication mechanism is being used.

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