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#1595 closed enhancement (fixed)
Opened September 11, 2007 11:24PM UTC
Closed February 10, 2008 05:39AM UTC
ajax provides no means for passing a username and password.
| Reported by: | zbskii | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.2.2 |
| Component: | ajax | Version: | 1.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
XMLHttpRequest's open() can take an optional username and password as its last two parameters. JQuery provides no way to pass these in. Perhaps add username and password to the parameters $.ajax() takes?
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Changed September 15, 2007 02:47AM UTC by comment:1
| type: | bug → enhancement |
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Changed November 26, 2007 03:47AM UTC by comment:2
I also think that this enhancement would be very useful. By all rights, HTTP Digest authentication should be used much more often than authentication cookies: it's much more secure (especially in a non-encrypted session). A big drawback to it is that web designers don't like the dialog boxes that browsers put up demanding user names and passwords; they want to use their own HTML based forms. But, using JavaScript, you can solve this problem. The technique is documented here. It requires, however, passing the authentication username and password to the XMLHttpRequest through the .open method call. jQuery simply doesn't let you do this, even with a beforeSend function.
I think the best solution is to allow "username" and "password" to be passed to .ajax. If others agree I can submit a patch for this (it would be dead simple).
Changed February 09, 2008 06:29PM UTC by comment:3
fixs in r4359
Changed February 10, 2008 05:39AM UTC by comment:4
| milestone: | 1.2.1 → 1.2.2 |
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| resolution: | → fixed |
| status: | new → closed |
Fixed as cloudream said. :)