On: Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022

[forgotmypw17]

>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 → forgotmypw17]

Yeah, one exception will always exist somewhere, but I'm not much worried about the exceptions.

[forgotmypw17 → floatingatoll]

It'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.