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Generic basic auth Authorization header field parser

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README.md	2026-08-03	436 Bytes	0
v3.0.0 source code.tar.gz	2026-08-03	38.6 kB	0
v3.0.0 source code.zip	2026-08-03	43.5 kB	4
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This release switch the package to ESM.

Changed

Publish package as ESM [#99]
Add format({ name, pass }) method [#65]
Bump supported node versions >=22 [#102]

Added

Cross platform base64 support [#95]

Removed

Removes the default export in favor of parse(str) [#94]
E.g. parse(req.headers.authorization ?? '')

Improvements

Parse performance improved by ~15% [#96]

Source: README.md, updated 2026-08-03

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Generic basic auth Authorization header field parser

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