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		ryan-c on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password ... I believe HTTP basic auth checks the username and password on every request. It's pretty rarely used these days though.

artursapek on April 1, 2015 [–]

Only for secret admin tools :D

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