Thanks to Fusl, ASYD now supports HTTP Basic Authentication.

Here’s what they wrote on the pull request which explains really good this new feature:

To be used with compatible software like cURL, Wget, etc.:

curl -v --basic -uUSERNAME:PASSWORD http://ASYDHOST:3000/SOMETHING

The idea behind this is that we can easily create routes or views that export information from the database – e.g. JSON data – for use in another software or script.

With the basic auth feature we can simplify this even more: Instead of using complicated cookie-based post-request logins we can just send the username and password in the URL or with separate parameters or options and we are not asked for a password anymore!

In addition to this, we can use the cookie exported by ASYD for further use without having to re-authenticate.