Impossible have stats in authenticated pages about cssstats HOT 6 OPEN

If there's a protected page you'd like to analyze, you can log in, then in your browser devtools, head over to Network/Resources & copy the link of the CSS file, then paste that into CSS Stats—it's super rare that sites require authentication to access the CSS itself, usually you just can't get the link to the CSS file from the outside (CSS Stats' issue). So if you get it yourself you should be fine.

If there's a specific type of authentication you think CSS Stats should support, for sure mention that, but I don't think there's any simple/streamlined way to do it, & getting the URL yourself works pretty well most of the time.

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Thank you for the detailed explanation!

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@sanderteirlynck - would be happy to accept a PR to enable this.

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Hi! What kind of authentication do you mean @raziel8? I'm not aware of any way of password-protecting CSS files that work in browsers. While CSS Stats can't support the stats of full pages behind a login (e.g. Gmail web UI), if you inspect element & grab the CSS link from that page while you're logged in, CSS Stats can fetch that.

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Can you give a more detailed example?

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I feel like there's a use case for websites that require authentication, though not exactly as explained here. Websites with basic access authentication enabled (user:[email protected], for example) currently fail in CSS Stats. Finding the path of the CSS file on these websites and pasting it in CSS Stats also fails, since technically you still need to authenticate before reading the contents of the file. I definitely have a use case for this, since the company I work at has a live development environment with basic access authentication enabled. I would love to be able to analyse the CSS of this environment, since its CSS is entirely different from the live website.

I noticed CSS Stats uses the normalize-url package, which has an option to allow basic access authentication. It looks like a small code change (one I would love to contribute) but I'm not sure if there are any downsides to this feature, or if anyone's interested in this feature. Would love to get some opinions!

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