Basic auth support and upstream fixes

* initial commit

* Fixed exports for use with external project

* Incorporating basic auth support from generic-filehandle fork

* Basic authentication support

* Tabix datafetcher output debugging

* Patched basic auth credentials in loadBBI

* Patched basic auth credentials in loadBBI

* CORS test

* CORS test

* CORS test

* 28 Jan 2025 patches (Updated README to document Basic auth; removed commented code)

* 28 Jan 2025 patches (Updated README to document Basic auth)

Author: alexpreynolds

.gitignore

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ jsons/
 report.html
 docs/_build
 webpack-stats.json
-dist
 lib/vendor
 app/test*.html
 es

README.md

@@ -47,6 +47,27 @@ Note that the `chromSizesUrl` option is required.
 
 For an example, see [`src/index.html`](src/index.html).
 
+### Basic authentication
+
+Bigwig files may be hosted on a website that uses Basic authentication to limit access. To load data from a bigWig file hosted on a site that uses Basic authentication, add the username and password to the URL. For example: `http://username:password@example.com/data.bw`. This would be used in the view configuration `url` property, *e.g.*,:
+
+```
+[...
+  {
+    "type": "bar",
+    "height": 80,
+    "data": {
+      "type": "bbi",
+      "url": "http://username:password@example.com/data.bw",
+      "chromSizesUrl": "https://aveit.s3.amazonaws.com/higlass/data/sequence/hg38.chrom.sizes",
+    },
+    "options": {
+      ...
+    }
+    
+  }
+]
+```
 
 ## Development