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).

Full list - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registry

• Web Security - Session Identifier Cookie

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