Hi. I wouldn't do it because other people may be able to read the username and password if sent via plain text. If you are trying to crawl files in a .htaccess protected directory, maybe remove the .htaccess file, make the crawl, and then restore the .htacess file. That way the contents can be searched but when a user clicks a related link, they would get the prompted for a username and password. However, if the files in the .htaccess protected directory are for members only, and you do a crawl like suggested above, then it could be possible for non-members to read your protected content if they can find the files in the text_content directory.
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