HTTP Request Header Authorization

External

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.8

Internal

• HTTP Request

Overview

A user agent that wishes to authenticate itself with a server may include an "Authorization: " request-header field with the request. The Authorization field value contains credentials:

Authorization: <auth-type-and-credentials>

More details about basic and digest HTTP authentication are available here:

Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication