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This is my preferred use of basic auth: just set the message to “enter anything for username and password” and accept anything. Search crawlers won’t be able to
by floatingatoll 5y ago
This is my preferred use of basic auth: just set the message to “enter anything for username and password” and accept anything. Search crawlers won’t be able to index the site, which protects me from haters finding my content, and RSS feed urls can just hardcore some u/p without consequence. It’s all the upsides of the modern web without any of the harmful behaviors enabled by global search engines.
- forgotmypw17 5y ago>Search crawlers won’t be able to index the site, which protects me from haters finding my content, and RSS feed urls can just hardcore some u/p without consequence. Sadly, I've seen at least one exception to this rule. Somehow, a search engine crawler wised up to my admin/admin captcha, and I had to change it.
- floatingatoll 5y agoYeah, one exception will always exist somewhere, but I'm not much worried about the exceptions.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoIt's an older computer, and that's what came pre-installed on it. I'm not interested in experimenting, just leave it with what works. When browsing a handful of trusted sites from behind a NAT on a secure network, I don't think it's that much of a security risk.