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

According to SharkAlley answer it works with nginx too.

I was search for a solution to get data by jQuery from a server behind nginx and restricted by Base Auth. This works for me:

server {
    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        if ($request_method = OPTIONS ) {
            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, OPTIONS";
            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Authorization";

            # Not necessary
            #            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true";
            #            add_header Content-Length 0;
            #            add_header Content-Type text/plain;

            return 200;
        }

        auth_basic "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file /var/.htpasswd;

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8100;
    }
}

And the JavaScript code is:

var auth = btoa('username:password');
$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: 'http://example.com',
    headers: {
        "Authorization": "Basic " + auth
    },
    success : function(data) {
    },
});

Article that I find useful:

1. This topic's answers
2. http://enable-cors.org/server_nginx.html
3. http://blog.rogeriopvl.com/archives/nginx-and-the-http-options-method/