June 12, 1999
4:30 a.m.
Is there any particular reason why there is no option (that I can find) to configure the web interface to use basic authentication instead of cookies?
I am just setting up a mailman site, and I know that I will have some admnistrators connecting from a web browser that supports basic authentication, but not cookies.
Background:
The local FreeNet uses a very old version of lynx that does not support cookies, and I want to allow those FreeNet users to use mailman.... However, when using lynx they are constantly prompted for the admin password, which makes the whole thing fairly unusable.