Spring Boot

What is the intention fron the below code snippet, assuning its part of a called method: return new HttpHesders$()($

$($st $f^{fm},$ wuth $=$ usernane $+.$:$"+$ password;

bytelf encodedauth $=$ Base $44.$ getEncoder $0.$ encode

$($outh$.$ getbytes $($Charset$,$ forNane $("$US$"$ASCII$")))$ ;

String authHeader $=$ "Basic $"+$ new String$($oncododith$)$;

set $("$Authorization$",$ authHeader$)$;

;

Pick ONE OR MORE options

This code is part of Spring Secured Controller

This Code secured an Rest EndPoint

This code enables HITP Basic Authentication while calling a secured service