Adobe

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Fastly

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greenbytes GmbH

Hafenweg 16 MuensterNW48155 Germany julian.reschke@greenbytes.de https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/

Applications and Real-Time HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP HTTP authentication The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This document formerly defined the HTTP Authentication framework, which has since been moved to the core HTTP Semantics document. Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTP working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at . Working Group information can be found at ; source code and issues list for this draft can be found at . The changes in this draft are summarized in .

HTTP provides a general framework for access control and authentication, via an extensible set of challenge-response authentication schemes, which can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a client to provide authentication information. The entire content of this document (previously in and ) has been moved to .

Northwestern University, Department of Mathematics

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Verisign Inc.

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AbiSource, Inc.

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Agranat Systems, Inc.

lawrence@agranat.com

Microsoft Corporation

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Netscape Communications Corporation Open Market, Inc.

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Adobe

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greenbytes GmbH

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