HTTP headers | Authorization
The HTTP headers Authorization header is a request type header that used to contains the credentials information to authenticate a user through a server. If the server responds with 401 Unauthorized and the WWW-Authenticate header not usually.
Syntax:
Authorization: <type> <credentials>
Directives: This header accept two directive as mentioned above and described below:
- <type>: This directive holds the authentication type the default type is Basic and the other types are IANA registry of Authentication schemes and Authentication for AWS servers (AWS4-HMAC-SHA256).
- <credentials>: This directive is totally depends on the type of authentication if the authentication is Basic then the credentials are struct with Username and Password combine with a colon like “Username:Password” and the resulted string is base64 encoded.
Example:
Supported browsers: The browsers compatible with HTTP headers Authorization are listed below:
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Safari
- Opera
Last Updated :
11 May, 2020
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