[webkit-dev] Using HTTP Auth with XHR

[Trey Matteson]

For example, the limitation that you can only see the bugs that you  
submitted.  It's also very different than Bugzilla in that you don't  
see all the internal Apple discussion of the bug.
trey


On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:58 AM, David Harrison wrote:

> Registered developers can see Radar bugs in BugReporter, though  
> one's ability to access any particular bug report may be limited.
>
> Dave
>
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:28 AM, Eric Seidel wrote:
>
>> Viewing rdar urls requires having Radar, an internal apple tool.
>>
>> Perhaps, I should not have included the URL.  I did so for the  
>> benefit for those few on this list with Radar access.
>>
>> My apologies for any confusion.
>>
>> -eric
>>
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:18 AM, Adam Ratcliffe wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Eric
>>>
>>> Thanks for confirming this.
>>>
>>> BTW what client do I use to view rdar: URLs?  I tried Safari but  
>>> it doesn't recognize the protocol.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On 20 Mar, 2006, at 8:06 PM, Eric Seidel wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe this is a known issue:
>>>>
>>>> <rdar://problem/4335156> XMLHttpRequest ignores username/ 
>>>> password passed to open()
>>>>
>>>> I need to go ahead and move that radar into bugzilla (or you  
>>>> should feel free to file one!), which will make it easier (for  
>>>> someone other than me) to fix.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know of any work-arounds.
>>>>
>>>> -eric
>>>>
>>>> p.s. Instructions on filing WebKit bugs are available from our  
>>>> website: http://www.webkit.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 19, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Adam Ratcliffe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm developing a DHTML application that interacts with a REST  
>>>>> API that uses either HTTP Basic or Digest authentication.  I'd  
>>>>> like to provide a login form that 	uses XHR to authenticate the  
>>>>> user before the actual request for a protected resource is sent.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that XHR does not handle the server's  
>>>>> authentication challenge, delegating the work to the browser  
>>>>> which shows the HTTP auth dialog.  I've tired various  
>>>>> approaches such as including the username and password in the  
>>>>> URL e.g. http://<username>:<password>@host/path but none of  
>>>>> these seem to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> The form's onsubmit handler is shown below, a complete test  
>>>>> case with a PHP server-side implementation attached.  I've  
>>>>> tried the test case both on Safari 417.8 and the webkit nightly  
>>>>> build.  The test case works fine on Firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a limitation of webkit's XHR implementation or is there  
>>>>> another way to do HTTP auth with it that I'm missing?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>> function login() {
>>>>>     var url = loginForm.action;
>>>>>     var username = document.getElementById("username").value;
>>>>>     var password = document.getElementById("password").value;
>>>>>
>>>>>     var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
>>>>>     http.open("get", url, false, username, password);
>>>>>     http.send("");
>>>>> }
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