Wesley Walser

The breaking change from npm/npm#5999 was suppose to include support for a ```--silent``` flag which would revert ```npm outdated``` to the old behavior. That feature was [unintentionally left unimplemented](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16083).

@charleswinin, yes this can be done. I was looking into the same thing myself and ended up reading a bunch of Google documentation and passport code to sort it out....

@keith24 The query string is not a secure means of communicating information that needs to remain secure. Over HTTPS request headers and body are secure but the URL is not....