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

JSONP does not work with basic authentication so the jQuery beforeSend callback won't work with JSONP/Script.

I managed to work around this limitation by adding the user and password to the request (e.g. user:pw@domain.tld). This works with pretty much any browser except Internet Explorer where authentication through URLs is not supported (the call will simply not be executed).

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489.