I don't recall seeing a lot of good info on how to use HTTP Basic Auth back in the day, to the extent that in 1998 I wrote my first technical how-to to post on

I don't recall seeing a lot of good info on how to use HTTP Basic Auth back in the day, to the extent that in 1998 I wrote my first technical how-to to post on my own website. It still lives on here: https://codesorcery.net/old/authentication/ https://codesorcery.net/old/authentication/