What are the HTTP Authentication schemes and methods?

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This page lists the HTTP authentication schemes and the HTTP components that they used

List

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Via the Http Authorization Header:

Others:

This is not an authentication but when authentication is successful, a session cookie may:

  • hold the state of authentication via the session id
  • hold as value the identification token encrypted.

Scheme Elements

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

At the end of the journey, a value is used to authenticate the client (ie user, process).

Documentation / Reference

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List of HTTP authentication scheme




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