Authentication - HTTP Authentication

In an HTTP authentication scheme, the following may play a role:

• HTTP cookies (to saved a session token for instance)
• TLS client certificates for digital signature authentication,
• and authentication entries (ie Authorization headers: name, password).

• Authentication - Basic Authentication (HTTP)
• Oauth - Bearer Token
• Digest (RFC7616)
• Web Security - Session Identifier Cookie
• OAuth, OpenId
• HOBA (RFC7486)
• …

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• Authentication (rfc7235), R. Fielding, J. Reschke. IETF. - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication.
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication