And while we're at it just a common authentication API for http all together, with negotiable features like basic auth/form auth/session cookie/jwt/oauth/api

And while we're at it just a common authentication API for http all together, with negotiable features like basic auth/form auth/session cookie/jwt/oauth/api token/csrf location/etc. Then we can make clients for every language to just log in to a website if you have the credentials. Web browsers could have a secure authentication widget that bypasses whatever the website has built in. It would be glorious