Ocamlnet 4 Reference Manual : Nethttp_client.unified_auth_handler

# Class Nethttp_client.unified_auth_handler

    class unified_auth_handler : ?insecure:bool -> #key_handler -> auth_handler

Support both digest and basic authentication, with preference to digest. By default, basic authentication is only enabled over TLS connections. You can enable basic authentication for normal connections with the `insecure` option.

In the future this class will also enable other secure authentication methods such as SCRAM or Digest with more secure hash functions. (The RFCs for these methods are not yet published.)

Note that there is no way of enabling the `skip_challenge` mode, as it is not known in advance which mechanism will be used.