Products · Pattern or everyday thing
HTTP authentication
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with HTTP authentication, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Login prompt appears before any page content loads, with no context for why2024-01-25
- The basic auth login dialog is so poor that nobody uses it2023-02-11
- Basic auth has terrible user experience and unfixable issues2022-07-28
- Logout leaves a credential prompt where no credentials work, confusing users who leave the computer in that state2022-01-01
- Logging in and out is browser-dependent and confusing for users2022-01-01
- Forces applications into a single inadequate login experience that can't gracefully log out sessions2011-08-08
- Modal browser login prompt is a poor, unusable UI for authentication2011-08-08
- HTTP auth has terrible UI and no reliable way to customize it for help or branding2010-10-25