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The authorization method and a space character (e.g. "Basic ") is then prepended to the encoded string. For example, if the browser uses Aladdin as the username and open sesame as the password, then the field's value is the Base64 encoding of Aladdin:open sesame, or QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==. Then the Authorization header field will appear as:
Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's web browser.This can be used to confirm the identity of a user before sending sensitive information, such as online banking transaction history.
The transfer encodings the user agent is willing to accept: the same values as for the response header field Transfer-Encoding can be used, plus the "trailers" value (related to the "chunked" transfer method) to notify the server it expects to receive additional fields in the trailer after the last, zero-sized, chunk.
User ID/Password credentials, SAML Assertions, and; custom-defined tokens. The token formats and semantics are defined in the associated profile documents. WS-Security incorporates security features in the header of a SOAP message, working in the application layer.
Some web applications need to manage user sessions, so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies [46] or hidden variables within web forms. To start an application user session, an interactive authentication via web application login must be performed. To stop a user session a logout operation must be ...
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The client uses the password and the string received as input to a hash function and then sends the result together with username in plain text. The server uses the username to apply the same function and compares the calculated and received hash. An authentication is successful when the calculated and received hashes match.
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