Merge pull request #111 from nerdmaennchen/master

explicitly tell users that the www-authenticate header must be set on…
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violoncello.ch
2019-10-22 16:58:16 +02:00
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@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ BasicAuth
Authenticate users by an [HTTP Basic access authentication][BasicAuth_0] call.
HTTP server of your choice to authenticate. It should return HTTP 2xx for correct credentials and an appropriate other error code for wrong ones or refused access.
The HTTP server _must_ respond to any requests to the target URL with the "www-authenticate" header set.
Otherwise BasicAuth considers itself to be misconfigured or the HTTP server unfit for authentication.
### Configuration
The only supported parameter is the URL of the web server where the authentication happens.