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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
- 80/100
- Confidence
- proven
- Weekly downloads
- 14,979,978
- Latest version
- 3.0.0
- Last release
- Aug 3, 2026
- License
- MIT
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lurq's verdict: low
- No known advisories
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- @firebase/auth-interop-types91/100 · proven
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- @azure/core-auth90/100 · proven
- @azure/identity90/100 · proven
- @firebase/auth90/100 · proven
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