Support for HTTP Basic Authentication

[yunzheng]

It would be nice if datasette could support HTTP Basic Authentication.

For now I could ofcourse leverage Nginx for basic authentication, but it would be nice to have support for this in datasette by default or via a plugin like datasette-auth-github.

My main usecase is to put the whole datasette instance behind a username/password prompt via Basic Auth and not specific urls.

[bobwhitelock]

It doesn't use basic auth, but you can put a whole datasette instance, or parts of this, behind a username/password prompt using https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-passwords

[simonw]

This is now available in datasette-auth-passwords 0.4! https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-passwords/releases/tag/0.4

[yunzheng]

Wow that was fast! Thanks for this very cool project and quick update! 👍