[dokuwiki] Re: Securing a folder outside dokuwiki with dokuwiki auth

At 09:15 +0200 UTC, on 2009-05-07, Andreas Benzler wrote:

> [...] I have read about a possibility to
> use basic authentification and point the  point to the users.auth.php
> file. [...] Can someone please
> confirm that the above scenario does work and is secure?

Depends on your definition of "secure". "basic auth" uses cleartext. There's
a variant, "digest auth", that makes the login credentials harder to
intercept.


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