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Just check a header for a secret key you generate when you startup. Easy peasy. This keeps you able to call it for testing (granted you read from stdout or passed the key to tests as a variable). Then some scripto ransomware User from Omgodisztan doesn’t shutdown your server from the tent he’s camped in with Starlink.

This is done now, thanks for the suggestion

It's fine the way it is IMO. However, it might be worth caveating in the README that it's for local testing only, the same way you do in your blog post.

Mainly because of the shutdown endpoint, but also that the -cors flag returns "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" exposing you to arbitrary cross origin requests.

A simple middleware hook for http basic auth :)