Title: HTTP Basic Authentication
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# HTTP Basic Authentication

 *  [davidbarratt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidbarratt/)
 * (@davidbarratt)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-basic-authentication-1/)
 * Does Uploads by Proxy work when the live site is behind an HTTP Basic Authentication?
   
   [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication)
 * I would assume it would work something like Stage File Proxy, but it doesn’t 
   seem to work this way:
    [https://www.drupal.org/node/1706990#comment-6955374](https://www.drupal.org/node/1706990#comment-6955374)
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/uploads-by-proxy/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/uploads-by-proxy/)

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 *  [Sam Bull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamsorcerer/)
 * (@dreamsorcerer)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-basic-authentication-1/#post-5334136)
 * I’ve added support for Basic Auth. Waiting for the author to accept the pull 
   request. You can find the change here: [https://github.com/pdclark/uploads-by-proxy/pull/6](https://github.com/pdclark/uploads-by-proxy/pull/6)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-basic-authentication-1/#post-5334136)
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