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testhrishi
Frequent Contributor
7 years ago

Authorization types or Authentication types?

Authorization Types

ReadyAPI supports multiple types of authorization.

In This Section

Basic

Digest

NTLM

SPNEGO/Kerberos

OAuth 1

OAuth 2

HTTP Form-Based

 

Question is, are these really authorization types? or Authentication types?

Basic is a type of authentication and so are the others, right?

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      testhrishi
      Frequent Contributor

      Well for example "Basic" is considered as authentication and not authorization. OAuth and other are little more controversial, as they are called Auth but the mechanism is used to authorized.. 

      anyway.. fun topic...