RFC 7235 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication

PROPOSED STANDARD · June 2014 · R. Fielding, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed.

Superseded. What governs this material today:

obsoleted by RFC 9110 — HTTP Semantics

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application- level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This document defines the HTTP Authentication framework.

Not ingested in full here — read it on rfc-editor.org.