Basic
BasicBrowser-native credential dialog. Encodes username:password as base64.
Challenge
Basic realm="demo"
Each endpoint issues a real WWW-Authenticate challenge and reflects the parsed request back once authenticated.
Browser-native credential dialog. Encodes username:password as base64.
Challenge–response scheme. Never sends the password in clear text.
Digest auth using the MD5 hashing algorithm explicitly.
Digest auth using the stronger SHA-256 hashing algorithm.
Token-based auth. Returns JSON with parsed JWT header and payload.
OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata discovery via WWW-Authenticate.
Three-message handshake (Negotiate → Challenge → Authenticate) with NTLMv2 hash. Requires the interactive client.
SPNEGO/Kerberos via the Negotiate scheme. The client wraps a Kerberos AP-REQ in a GSSAPI/SPNEGO token. Requires the interactive client.