basicauth directive has no way to supply exceptions

[Lemmmy]

Unless I'm missing some obvious 'trick', the basicauth directive does not have an easy way to supply exceptions (e.g. via an except option); the only ways I can see are to list all resources except the one you want an exception for (inconvenient and error-prone), or to set up an additional site block that bypasses the auth plugin directly. I think that, similar to the proxy directive, basicauth should have an except option.

The use case I have in mind for this is a PWA protected behind basicauth. The user-agent requests to get /manifest.json on each page load, however, Chrome (and possibly other browsers) does not send Authorization headers for this particular request, meaning the console gets spammed with 401 errors, and fails Lighthouse checks.