Comments on: HTTP Basic Authentication using AJAX

By: James Elford

James Elford — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:34:16 +0000

I’m trying to get this working on my own bit of javascript; it’s running from a local file (and always will be), and I’m using the exact same code as Phani above, except I get 403 (authentication) errors. Any clues why? At the moment I’ve got my own username/password hardcoded in, and I’m pretty sure they’re correct!

Thanks,

James

By: Aswin Anand

Aswin Anand — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:41:16 +0000

Pretty cool Tim

By: Tim Harper

Tim Harper — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:23:16 +0000

I cleaned up the base 64 script and have posted it here:

http://gist.github.com/300788

Basically, I just extracted the JavaScript from the example, and then made all of the variables and helper methods private. I exposed the decoder/encoder functions as base64.encode, base64.decode

By: Soumya SN

Soumya SN — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:35:41 +0000

Hi Aswin,

If you please add a snippet of code that you have written for cross domain basic authentication, it will be very helpful.

I tried with the iframe concept, still not working for me

Please help me out

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:36:58 +0000

Has anyone actually got this working?

By: Aswin Anand

Aswin Anand — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:09:50 +0000

Try using an iframe to do an HTTP Post to twitter. Set the parent document’s domain to match that of twitter’s & you would be able to execute an onload when twitter returns its result.

By: Phani

Phani — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:24:13 +0000

I tried setting the domain property to twitter.com. Still no luck though…

document.domain=”twitter.com”;

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

By: Aswin Anand

Aswin Anand — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:44:31 +0000

@Phani: I have updated the post. Please check the same.

By: Phani

Phani — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:22:10 +0000

I’m trying to build a simple application to update twitter status. I tried a few different way including the one that you suggested:

$.ajax({
url: ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json’,
status: status,
beforeSend: function(xhr) {xhr.setRequestHeader(“Authorization”, “Basic ” + Base64.encode(username + “:” + password))},
sucess: function(result) {alert(‘done’ + result);}
});

But no matter which way I try, I’m getting the following error:

“Access to restricted URI denied” code: “1012″ on my error console. I did some research and is seemed like something to do with cross domain AJAX requests. But I’m wondering how it worked for you.

Can you maybe post a working sample for updating twitter status?

By: Aswin Anand

Aswin Anand — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:18:15 +0000

Hey Adam, I’m unable to understand what you are trying to do. Can you be more clear?