How to disable the default basic authentication?

[JasonCaoJR]

Hi,
The basic authentication stops all the REST API calls. There are always error to call the rest api, event with setting headers of:
--header 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4='
How to disable the default basic authentication?

[ato]

Heritrix currently uses digest authentication not basic authentication. You'll need to use a client that supports digest authentication, for example using curl:

curl -k --digest -u username:password https://localhost:8443/engine

Currently there are no options to change or disable the authentication. (The relevant code is here.)