Basic Authentication and Form based Authentication
What are Basic Authentication and Form Based Authentication? And Kerberos Single sign-on Basic authentication and Form based authentication allow a user to authentication to a server via a browser. Both these authentication mechanisms use the HTTP/HTTPS protocols with HTTPS being the secure channel. Basic authentication is formally defined in an RFC (there is no RFC for Form based authentication). Both authentication mechanisms will allow a remote user to authenticate to a server. However, Basic authentication does not use cookies, hence there is no concept of a session or loggin out a user. Form based authentication are implemented via HTML forms which have username and password fields for a user to enter and send over to the remote server for authentication. Form based authentication use cookies for session management so user logout can be controlled. Another popular browser based authentication is via Kerberos Single Sign-on which allows a user to login to trusted website seamle