René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Unlike the ping endpoint the web UI is not easily accessible when authenticated","articleBody":"When starting a process like this:\n\n```bash\nDUCKDB_HTTPSERVER_FOREGROUND=1 DUCKDB_HTTPSERVER_DEBUG=1 duckdb -c \"install httpserver from community; load httpserver; select httpserve_start('0.0.0.0', 7777, 'duck:duck');\"\n```\n\n... it is possible to read from the $base_url/ping endpoint, so easy to check that the service is alive, nice!\n\nBut the web UI is not being served up, it reponds with \"Unauthenticated\" - could it be excluded from authentication since the web ui has specific settings where the base_url, user and pass can be provided anyhow (which might be nice to be able to use also when authenticating against an authenticated instance / itself)?\n\nAlso trying a url like \"http://user:pass@localhost:7777\" wouldn't allow access to the web ui when the httpserver runs as authenticated.\n\nWould be supernice if this worked also when the service runs under another url base (ie something like https://some.server.tld/duckserve/ for example).\n\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mskyttner","@type":"Person","name":"mskyttner"},"datePublished":"2025-02-06T12:54:26.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/31/httpserver/issues/31"}