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noman-land on July 27, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: No AI Content

Can you say more about why a crawler couldn't parse an auth deacription and also what is an auth description?

orkj on July 27, 2025 | [–]

> what is an auth description?

They are probably referring to the text in the basic auth "pop-up" which is usually set like

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="my text"

altairprime on July 27, 2025 | | [–]

Yep!

altairprime on July 27, 2025 | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701725

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