RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme

This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication scheme, which transmits credentials as user-id/ password pairs, encoded…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5234: Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
Normative reference — RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
Normative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Normative reference — RFC 4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
Normative reference — RFC 20: ASCII format for network interchange
Normative reference — RFC 5198: Unicode Format for Network Interchange
Normative reference — RFC 7235: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication
Normative reference — RFC 6365: Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
Normative reference — RFC 2978: IANA Charset Registration Procedures
Normative reference — RFC 7613: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords
Informative reference — RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Informative reference — RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS
Informative reference — RFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
Informative reference — RFC 6973: Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 2831: Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism
Informative reference — RFC 7615: HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields
Informative reference — RFC 3875: The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1

Incoming relationships (10 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9560: Federated Authentication for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Using OpenID Connect
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8827: WebRTC Security Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8265: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8071: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9205: Building Protocols with HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8322: Resource-Oriented Lightweight Information Exchange (ROLIE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8936: Poll-Based Security Event Token (SET) Delivery Using HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8857: The WebSocket Protocol as a Transport for the Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9569: The Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Transport Information Publication Service (TIPS)