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HTTP Authentication: Basic, Bearer & API Keys

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HTTP Authentication: Basic, Bearer & API Keys is part of the Pro tier — advanced networking topics including BGP routing, Zero Trust, DDoS attacks, QUIC, TLS certificate chains, and more.

This scenario covers

How HTTP authentication mechanisms work — WWW-Authenticate challenge/response, Basic auth encoding, Bearer token patterns, API key placement (header vs query vs body), and the security tradeoffs of each approach with recommendations.

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