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This is an important issue, but as the article says, Auth Basic over SSL is perfectly secure (if you don't redirect 80 to 443 of course). And since it is so sim
by louischatriot 13y ago
This is an important issue, but as the article says, Auth Basic over SSL is perfectly secure (if you don't redirect 80 to 443 of course). And since it is so simple to set up and use, I can see why some providers would use it (I do for example).
Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/516fc7e340d4a84c4100020e/why-the-hell-does-your-api-still-use-http-basic-auth http://tldr.io/tldrs/516fc7e340d4a84c4100020e/why-the-hell-d...
- sjtgraham 13y agoGreat TL;DR. Is that algorithmically generated or by a human?
- eigenvector 13y agoIt's crowd-sourced from actual people using a browser extension. http://tldr.io/what-is-tldr http://tldr.io/what-is-tldr (see how I gave you a tl;dr of the link explaining how the tl;dr is generated?)
- iaskwhy 13y agoIs there a tl;dr page for that page? :)
- louischatriot 13y agoActually, there is: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50509fb5e37267fc34000007/tl-dr-what-is-it http://tldr.io/tldrs/50509fb5e37267fc34000007/tl-dr-what-is-... But this page is a bit outdated, this is what we use now: http://tldr.io/tldrs/514d1c2ec02bf6ba46001aba/more-on-the-tldr-io-extension http://tldr.io/tldrs/514d1c2ec02bf6ba46001aba/more-on-the-tl...
- psionski 13y agoSo you don't mind people butchering your words? I'd be offended if someone created a TL;DR of one of my posts...