RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication

This document provides the specification for HTTP's authentication framework, the original Basic authentication scheme and a scheme based on cryptographic…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 2246: The TLS Protocol Version 1.0
Informative reference — RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
Informative reference — RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
Informative reference — RFC 2195: IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response

Incoming relationships (42 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 7235: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication
Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication
Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 7615: HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6749: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6750: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7030: Enrollment over Secure Transport
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4825: The Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4976: Relay Extensions for the Message Sessions Relay Protocol (MSRP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5023: The Atom Publishing Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4743: Using NETCONF over the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5025: Presence Authorization Rules
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5849: The OAuth 1.0 Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4169: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Authentication Using Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) Version-2
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6080: A Framework for Session Initiation Protocol User Agent Profile Delivery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6352: CardDAV: vCard Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6503: Centralized Conferencing Manipulation Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4827: An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) Usage for Manipulating Presence Document Contents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5408: Identity-Based Encryption Architecture and Supporting Data Structures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7118: The WebSocket Protocol as a Transport for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4590: RADIUS Extension for Digest Authentication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4740: Diameter Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6331: Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6638: Scheduling Extensions to CalDAV
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6764: Locating Services for Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) and vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3944: H.350 Directory Services
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6011: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) User Agent Configuration
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7236: Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registrations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7612: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Schema for Printer Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4572: Connection-Oriented Media Transport over the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol in the Session Description Protocol (SDP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4412: Communications Resource Priority for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5122: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5985: HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2831: Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3310: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Authentication Using Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6632: An Overview of the IETF Network Management Standards
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4969: IANA Registration for vCard Enumservice
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8760: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Digest Access Authentication Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3117: On the Design of Application Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4189: Requirements for End-to-Middle Security for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)