<p>Well it wasn't an intentional change but the old configuration was unintentional as well in that we added CORS support to a site that already had basic auth support without realising the potential consequences.</p>
<p>Equally basic authentication has really been deprecated pretty much since OAuth was added though we don't have a formal timetable for removing it.</p>
<p>I'm very reluctant to re-enable this for any endpoints - not only does it potentially allow a malicious site to extract information it would also allow it to, for example, make edits in your name.</p>

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