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Basic authentication is sometimes useful for content that should not be publicly accessible, but does not need the level of security of other authentication methods. Ex. in-development web pages, temporarily hidden content.
It should work in combination with
WWW-Authenticate
error handler.Related issue(s)
#254
This issue is quite old, but I today stumbled upon situation where basic authn could be useful to me - so I've decided to implement it.
Checklist
introduces a new feature.
contributing code guidelines.
vulnerability. If this pull request addresses a security vulnerability, I
confirm that I got the approval (please contact
[email protected]) from the maintainers to push
the changes.
works.
Further comments
I will prepare a PR to docs if this feat gets approved.