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The vast majority of rails applications do not use HTTP basic authentication, and I would guess that most of the ones that do use nginx or apache to provide it.
by semiquaver 11y ago
The vast majority of rails applications do not use HTTP basic authentication, and I would guess that most of the ones that do use nginx or apache to provide it. This was probably not caught until now because hardly anyone uses it.
- ryanlol 11y agoI've seen a bunch of companies use rails HTTP basic auth internally. And it's not that it wasn't caught until now, it's that it wasn't caught before the commit was accepted.
- eropple 11y agoI expect (though I have not looked) that it's old code that wasn't eyeballed for security so much as for consistency and correctness. Once in, it doesn't leave.
- matthewcford 11y agoI imagine every app on Heroku which uses basic auth is at risk then.