How to do HTTP Basic Auth in Ajax - CodersEye.com

You can use HTTP Basic Authentication with Javascript/Ajax in just three steps. I’ll give you them in just a moment. The Background This morning, I was experimenting with Adobe AIR, writing a client to tell me whether I have games waiting for me to make a move on Weewar, and I needed to be able to use my username and “token” via Basic Auth to do that. It was not easy to find how to do it. In fact,