Http - Authorization Header (authentication entries)
Table of Contents
1 - About
authorization is a header that contains credentials to authenticate a user known also as Authentication entry.
2 - Articles Related
3 - Syntax
Authorization: CredentialType <token>
4 - Type and Authentication entry
An authentication entry and a proxy-authentication entry are tuples of username, password, and realm, used respectively for HTTP authentication and HTTP proxy authentication, and associated with one or more requests.
4.1 - Basic
Authentication - Basic Authentication (HTTP)
Authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==
4.2 - Digest
4.3 - Bearer
bearer
Example:
Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6ImFQY3R3X29kdlJPb0VO
ZzNWb09sSWgydGlFcyIsImtpZCI6ImFQY3R3X29kdlJPb0VOZzNWb09sSWgydGlFcyJ9.eyJhdWQiO
iJodHRwczovL21hbmFnZW1lbnQuY29yZS53aW5kb3dzLm5ld............
4.4 - sso_key
Authorization: sso_key key:value
Authorization: sso_key e902odRf8RFKz_Pmn2CTwRZjdcdUg3abAoCe:QotBm9tBasNdRU22PjGnju