Published on April 14, 2016 Not so long ago, I needed to write a web app to automate the recording of our Haskell podcast, Bananas and Lenses. To build it, I chose a lightweight Haskell web framework called Scotty. There is another lightweight Haskell web framework called Spock. Both start with the letter S and are characters from Star Trek, and I have little hope ever being able to tell which is
![Basic HTTP auth with Scotty](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/0dc82c909d8ccdb1b0b8b1da9acba3697e1c25f1/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fro-che.info%2Fimg%2Frecbnl.png)