Use basic authentication with jQuery and Ajax

Question

I am trying to create a basic authentication through the browser, but I can\'t really get there.

If this script won\'t be here the browser authentication will take o

Answer 1

Use the beforeSend callback to add a HTTP header with the authentication information like so:

var username = $("input#username").val();
var password = $("input#password").val();  

function make_base_auth(user, password) {
  var tok = user + ':' + password;
  var hash = btoa(tok);
  return "Basic " + hash;
}
$.ajax
  ({
    type: "GET",
    url: "index1.php",
    dataType: 'json',
    async: false,
    data: '{}',
    beforeSend: function (xhr){ 
        xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', make_base_auth(username, password)); 
    },
    success: function (){
        alert('Thanks for your comment!'); 
    }
});