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An old W3C doc lists ‘user’ as a valid scheme for the Authorization header and is defined like …
Authorization: user fred:mypassword
There doesn’t seem to be a reference to this in the later RFC2617. Has this been deprecated?
Thanks
Chris
In short, yes.
RFC 2616 makes a number of references to HTTP access authentication by referring to RFC 2617 (e.g. §11 Access Authentication). Only 2 schemes are discussed in both RFCs (Basic and Digest).
A few more schemes are discussed in this post, but the scheme from the W3C site doesn’t seem to have been implemented anywhere.