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decrypt http headers

I am writing a web server and I have run into a problem. OK, here goes:

I want to authenticate a user,
so I send the following header to the client:

========SNIP============

HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
Server: ZeroAdmin/1.0
Date: Thu 2 Mar 2000 04:34:29 GMT
WWW-authenticate: Basic realm="ZeroAdmin WebAdministrative Plugin"
Content-type: text/html
Connection: close

=========SNIP==========

The browser gets the authentication box, and I type in a username/password, and then it sends back this header:

=========SNIP==========
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)
Host: localhost:99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Authorize: QWaIuaLWZpaIF
=========SNIP==========

The Authorize tag holds the password
encrypted and stuff. (The exact header may be different).

Is there any way to decrypt??

HELP! Any commentary is appreaticated!!
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Thanks for the answer. Just one question:

Is there an API call to decrypt quickly, or some function you/anyone can give me that will do it for me?