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With `auth=try` pgxhtml would serve pages composed using defaults if
no credentials are provided, but with 401 status code.
+`auth=fail` would ignore user-provided credentials and serve pages
+with 401 status code. It can be used to circumvent poor authentication
+handling by some web browsers.
+
+
### Web server
This is intended to be used with an HTTP server, which would take care