Authentication - HTTP Authentication
About
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).
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Documentation / Reference
- Authentication (rfc7235), R. Fielding, J. Reschke. IETF. - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication.