Title: feature request: basic auth fall-back
Last modified: November 15, 2022

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# feature request: basic auth fall-back

 *  [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-basic-auth-fall-back/)
 * First, thanks for the great plugin, we’ve been using it for a couple years, and
   it’s worked fantastic.
 * Unfortunately, we found that we needed Basic Authentication for a particular 
   endpoint (and a particular user) for a new integration where we don’t have control
   over the authentication method used. I found an old thread with some custom code
   that got things working for now. But I was wondering if it’d be possible to have
   a fall-back to Basic Auth added, so our edits don’t get wiped out in the next
   plugin update?
 * Ideally, this would only be enabled by filter, and could thus potentially be 
   used only for specific REST API endpoints, rather than opening up the whole REST
   API to Basic Auth.
 * Thoughts?

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-basic-auth-fall-back/)
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