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Is there a way to have a route with optional authentication? I have a specific route that both users and anonymous clients can access.

Maybe a bad idea but, you could create an auth provider that always succeeds authenticating and add that to the route since the `authenticate` function can be called with multiple configurations.

They actually have functionality for this…

Just add the parameter for <https://api.ktor.io/ktor-server/ktor-server-plugins/ktor-server-auth/io.ktor.server.auth/authenticate.html|optional>

It will give you a `null` principal according to the documentation.

I have to give it to them that in insight it was extremely easy to find.