When accessing secured services from a GIS it is mandatory for the user to provide http basic or http digest authorization. If the user so chooses to use http basic adding forceBasicAuth=true to the query string is necessary.
Improvement
Removing the parameter entirely. http basic should be recognized by the header itself.
Reasoning
the very header containing the user information has the method in it, the parameter is redundant
the parameter is extra work and complicates things for users and support
Status Quo
When accessing secured services from a GIS it is mandatory for the user to provide http basic or http digest authorization. If the user so chooses to use http basic adding
forceBasicAuth=trueto the query string is necessary.Improvement
Removing the parameter entirely. http basic should be recognized by the header itself.
Reasoning