Exam 301b Topic 2 Question 153 Discussion

Actual exam question for F5's 301b exam
Question #: 153
Topic #: 2
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?

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by Marshall at Sep 21, 2026, 10:54 PM

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