HTPASSWD

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At a glance


Purpose	An Apache htpasswd or htdigest file: user names with password hashes.
Extensions	`.htpasswd`
Poka parser	`poka-htpasswd`
Viewer	`poka-metadata-card-viewer`
Depth tier	Metadata card (see Depth tiers)
Breadth tier	B2 Broad (see Breadth tiers)

How much Poka reads

B2 Broad. The common content of the current and the common older versions is decoded. Some named features or versions are not, and are listed.

Confidence: medium (the reviewer read the code). Basis: Reviewed 2026-10-26: read parsers/poka-htpasswd/src/main.rs (156 lines) and plugin.json. No unit tests or tests/samples.rs; the corpus has no .htpasswd and .htdigest sample. Covers .htpasswd and .htdigest. The card lists every user with the hash algorithm read from its prefix (MD5 apr1, bcrypt, SHA-256 and SHA-512 crypt, SHA-1, plain, DES); hashes are redacted. Judgement: B2: every user is listed; hashes are hidden by design.

What Poka does not read

Hashes are redacted (by design)
htdigest realms are not shown separately (judgement from the code)

Libraries

Libraries Poka uses or has assessed for this format, with the status, licence and language the registry records.

htauth (candidate; Apache-2.0 OR MIT; Rust; https://github.com/mexus/htauth) — Reads, verifies and edits htpasswd files (bcrypt, SHA, APR1-MD5); version 0.1.2, created Jan 2026.
foomo/htpasswd (candidate; MIT; Go; https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/foomo/htpasswd) — ParseHtpasswdFile reads a file into a user-to-hash map; untagged snapshot dated Jan 2020.
passlib (passlib.apache.HtpasswdFile) (candidate; licence unconfirmed; Python; https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lib/passlib.apache.html) — Loads and edits htpasswd files; docs page gives no licence terms.

Sources

parsers/poka-htpasswd/src/main.rs
parsers/poka-htpasswd/plugin.json