Passport HTTP Basic and Digest Strategies

Passport-HTTP-2 provides HTTP Basic and Digest authentication strategies for Passport.js, enabling stateless authentication for Node.js applications that support Connect-style middleware like Express. Currently at version 1.1.1, the library's release cadence appears to be on-demand, with the last notable update in 2019 and last commit in 2022, suggesting a maintenance rather than actively developed status. It serves as a fork of the original `jaredhanson/passport-http` module, which itself is less actively maintained. This fork aims to offer continued support for these fundamental HTTP authentication schemes, often used for protecting API endpoints where sessions are not desired. Developers leverage this module to integrate standard basic (username/password over plaintext, requires HTTPS) and digest (challenge-response, avoids cleartext password) authentication into their Passport-based applications.