# Basic auth support

**URL:** <https://community.yatse.tv/t/basic-auth-support/2180>\
**Category:** Won't implement\
**Created:** [November 14, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/basic-auth-support/2180 "2019-11-14T09:35:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mrmalt](https://community.yatse.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mrmalt](https://community.yatse.tv/u/mrmalt)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/basic-auth-support/2180/1 "2019-11-14T09:35:32Z")

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I’d like to see HTTP Basic Auth support under the connection options. I have my Jellyfin server behind nginx with basic auth as an additional security step and this seems to be a common practice in the jellyfin community -and probably in other communities too- since Basic Auth is supported on both the android client and the kodi plugin.

Let me know if I can help push this fwd somehow.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](https://community.yatse.tv/user_avatar/community.yatse.tv/tolriq/32/12_2.png) [@Tolriq](https://community.yatse.tv/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/basic-auth-support/2180/2 "2019-11-14T10:26:18Z")

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Sorry but this is a very rare combination that no one asked in 8 years 😉

I have no plans to support that as this would require major changes and induce support complexity to properly handle where the authentication errors occurs.

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**Author:** ![mrmalt](https://community.yatse.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mrmalt](https://community.yatse.tv/u/mrmalt)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/basic-auth-support/2180/3 "2019-11-17T09:02:22Z")

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Interesting! I 's under the impression that this a very common setup and that it’s makes sense so one can hide the existence of a jellyfin / plex / kodi instance. Too bad that’s not the case.

Thanks for the prompt reply Tolriq and for your all the time you spend on Yatse. 🍺

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](https://community.yatse.tv/user_avatar/community.yatse.tv/tolriq/32/12_2.png) [@Tolriq](https://community.yatse.tv/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/basic-auth-support/2180/4 "2019-11-17T09:06:17Z")

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Just use a different port and/or hide under a subfolder (Yatse support it when editing host) this is much more common and so was added 😉