feature request: basic auth fall-back

First, thanks for the great plugin, we’ve been using it for a couple years, and it’s worked fantastic.

Unfortunately, we found that we needed Basic Authentication for a particular endpoint (and a particular user) for a new integration where we don’t have control over the authentication method used. I found an old thread with some custom code that got things working for now. But I was wondering if it’d be possible to have a fall-back to Basic Auth added, so our edits don’t get wiped out in the next plugin update?

Ideally, this would only be enabled by filter, and could thus potentially be used only for specific REST API endpoints, rather than opening up the whole REST API to Basic Auth.

Thoughts?