Http resources protected with basic authentication

[yabune]

Hi,

Why are the http resources protected with basic authentication not available anymore?
I get all the data from services with basic authentication to show in the application.
It doesn't make sense for the user to enter a username and password to use the application.

Thank you!

[symbianyucca]

What resources are you talking about ?

[yabune]

I did a symbian web runtime app and I get the data with a javascript ajax call to a web service that has basic authentication.
This web service replies with a xml with the data I need and I parse it with javascript to show inside the app.

[symbianyucca]

And excatly where in there are you having problems ?

[yabune]

Since the new update in Symbian Browser (Anna) when I open the application a login box opens to enter the username and password.
So the users can't access the application.

[isalento]

Hi,

Indeed there seems to be issue with the Browser 7.3.1.37 on passing username and password

xmlHttpReq.open("GET", url,true, user, pass); //does not work

What you can do to workaround this problem is to generate Authorization header by yourself.

You'll need base64 encoded username and password pair separated by semicolon. I was using following library and it worked OK.
http://www.webtoolkit.info/javascript-base64.html

var auth = Base64.encode(user+':'+pass);

Then in XMLHttpRequest set custom Authorization Header and declare it to be "Basic" type.

xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+auth);

Please note that in URL authentication support was dropped intentionally. If your widget was using it, please start using the workaround.
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...in_Browser_7.3

Br,
Ilkka

[yabune]

Thanks a lot!
It worked really well!