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basic-auth is a Node. js module that parses and formats Basic Authentication headers. It is useful for handling authentication in web applications by extracting user credentials from headers.
- lurq health score
- 81/100
- Confidence
- proven
- Weekly downloads
- 21,048,457
- Latest version
- 3.0.0
- Last release
- Aug 3, 2026
- License
- MIT
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