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Applications HTTPbis Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP Authentication Authentication Scheme This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication schemes that have been defined in RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was established. Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at . The current issues list is at and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at . This is a temporary document for the purpose of tracking the editorial changes made during the AUTH48 (RFC publication) phase.

This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication schemes that have been defined in RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was established.

There are no security considerations related to the registration itself. Security considerations applicable to the individual authentication schemes ought to be discussed in the specifications that define them.

The registrations below have been added to the IANA "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registry" at (see ). Authentication Scheme Name Reference Notes Basic Bearer Digest Negotiate This authentication scheme violates both HTTP semantics (being connection-oriented) and syntax (use of syntax incompatible with the WWW-Authenticate and Authorization header field syntax). OAuth

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