[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 40382] HTML5 video tag Does Not Load in Apache htaccess/htpasswd Protected Directory

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40382





--- Comment #9 from Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at apple.com>  2013-04-19 16:19:57 PST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> To hopefully percolate this issue up, Safari 6.0.4 also exhibits this incorrect behavior (does not load the <video> element if it's placed within a .htaccess/.htpasswd protected directory, even after successfully authenticating).
> 
> The original poster's test site above is still active and demonstrates the issue.
> 
> If the "Remember this password in my keychain" is checked in the authentication dialog, video loads properly. From Eric_Carlson's comments, it appears that the credentials are then handled by the OS instead of Safari.
> 

  Not quite, AVFoundation/QTKit load media data themselves so they need the credentials. WebKit has this information when Safari authenticates, but AVFoundation and QTKit don't have a mechanism to request them from WebKit, but they are able to read the keychain so they can get credentials when they have been saved there.

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