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		zeveb on Feb 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: API Design Guide > What's wrong with basic auth with HTTPS? The only thing wrong that I can see is that it's 2017 and the browsers still don't have a good (indeed, AFAIK, any) UI for logging out.

nandhp on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

Or for staying logged in across sessions (or not). But it should be fine for an API.

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