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

The examples above are a bit confusing, and this is probably the best way:

$.ajaxSetup({
  headers: {
    'Authorization': "Basic " + btoa(USERNAME + ":" + PASSWORD)
  }
});

I took the above from a combination of Rico and Yossi's answer.

The btoa function Base64 encodes a string.