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Does XMLHttpRequest strip credentials from url when specifying a port?

I have the following code: var url = 'http://will:secret@localhost:5984/wells/_design/reading/_view/by_time' var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest() xmlHttp.open( 'GET', url, false ) xmlHttp.send( null ) ...
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Skip HTTP authentication with Javascript?

I have a site where user must login to access. I have some web services calls for getting datas stored in another server. But to access to the server user must login again via a login popup. To avoid ...
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Basic authentication using ajax throws error unexpected token <

I am trying to make an ajax call for the baic authentication using the following code - $.ajax({ method: "GET", xhrFields: { "withCredentials": true }, beforeSend: ...
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Calling a REST service with Basic HTTP autentication from JavaScript

I'm trying to call a REST service that uses Basic Authentication from a JavaScript thats rendered on a SharePoint page. For the Basic Authentication it should use the credentials the user logged into ...
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Can't set an HTTP Basic Auth header in AngularJS

I wrote the following controller for testing out HTTP Basic Auth using Angular JS. function TestCtrl($scope, $http, Base64){ $http.defaults.headers.common.Authorization = 'Basic ' + ...
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Adding HTTP Basic Authentication Header to Backbone.js Sync Function Prevents Model from Being Updated on Save()

I'm working on a web application that is powered by a restful API written with Python's CherryPy framework. I started out writing the user interface with a combination of jQuery and server side ...
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HTTP Basic Auth - Server Says? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Sending basic authentication information via form When connecting to a web folder with basic auth the server can "say" something to you. For example when you you try ...
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HTTP basic authentication using javascript best methods

I have html5 + javascript +phone-gap app for ios. I need to connect to a protected url and pass HTTP basic authentication in base64 to get a rss feed. Am not using jquery in the app and look good ...
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Anyway to make API calls to HTTP basic auth more secure?

I'm working on a few smaller projects, and probably a lot more later on, that will be using HTTP basic auth to fetch and post data. Some example APIs are MongoHQ and Wufoo. The projects are heavily ...
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Javascript hitting rails3 route claims it needs authentication, even though I'm already logged in

I have a rails 3 app, where one of the pages has some javascript stuff (an OpenLayers map) that hits a route that requires authentication. When I hit the route, I get an http basic auth pop up that ...
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Get the HTTP Basic Auth username from javascript?

I have a webpage that is only accessible over http basic auth. How can I figure out the basic auth username in javascript in that page. i.e. when someone visits it (after logging in), I want to make a ...
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Ajax: HTTP Basic Auth and authentication cookie

I want to store the HTTP basic authentication headerline in an authentication cookie, so that I don't have to deal with the authorisation header in subsequent requests (I'm using JQuery): ...