Basic authentication

Learn how to configure Website Scanner to log in through an HTTP Basic auth popup.

Use basic authentication when your website displays a browser popup requesting credentials instead of a login form.

Configure basic authentication

1. Navigate to the Website Scanner dashboard and click New scan.

   

2. Select a scan mode tab: Manual mode, Sitemap, or Crawler.
3. Add pages to scan based on your selected mode:
   • Manual mode: Enter a URL in the Enter page URL field and click Add page. Repeat for each URL, or use the dropdown to upload a CSV.
   • Sitemap: Enter a domain URL or sitemap.xml URL in the Enter domain URL or sitemap.xml URL field and click Add sitemap.
   • Crawler: Enter a starting URL in the Enter page URL field and click Start Crawl. The crawler discovers linked pages automatically.

   

4. Click the settings (gear icon) to open Advanced scan settings.

5. In the General settings tab, click Add next to Test pages behind login.

   

6. Enter a configuration name.

7. Confirm that Basic authentication is selected as the authentication type.

   

8. Enter the Username and Password.
9. Click Save & Confirm.

Next steps

• Configure form authentication if your site uses a standard login form instead.
• Configure multipage authentication if your login spans multiple screens.