How to handle basic authentication with protractor?

Question

I\'m trying protractor to write a few tests in a non angular application. I have to login in a page trough basic authentication in google chrome, but i have no idea how.

Answer 1

If you're reading this in 2019, with Angular 7/8, consider this:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/authenticator-browser-extension

I find it much easier than the solutions suggested above.