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Common Authentication Methods: HTTP Basic, Session‑Cookie, Token, and OAuth

This article reviews four widely used authentication mechanisms—HTTP Basic authentication, session‑cookie based authentication, token (JWT) authentication, and OAuth 2.0—explaining their workflows, security characteristics, and providing Node.js/Express code examples for each.

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Common Authentication Methods: HTTP Basic, Session‑Cookie, Token, and OAuth

$(function(){ send('./Authentication_base'); }); var send = function(url){ $.ajax({ url: url, method: 'GET', }); }

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