Bug 140850

Summary:	[testcase] XMLHttpRequest does not send authentication information
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Ian P. Christian <pookey>
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, maksim, silfreed-kdebugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	testcase

Description Ian P. Christian 2007-01-29 19:59:42 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
OS:                Linux

If you use XMLHttpRequest on a site protected by HTTP authentication, then it will ask for your username and password - despite having logged into the site to load the page in the first place.

Comment 1 Douglas E. Warner 2008-02-27 20:28:12 UTC

I'm also experiencing this both in 3.5.8 and 3.5.9.

Comment 2 Michael Leupold 2008-04-20 02:02:05 UTC

Created attachment 24420 [details]
testcase

This testcase tries to reproduce the problem mentioned in the report. It has to
be put on some webserver to work (.htaccess with user/password = kde/kde
included).

I also uploaded the testcase to
http://test.confuego.org/140850/140850-page.html for testing it right away.

Comment 3 Michael Leupold 2008-04-20 02:04:04 UTC

Using my testcase I can't reproduce this bug on either 3.5.9 or trunk r798768. Are you still experiencing this behaviour?

Comment 4 Douglas E. Warner 2008-04-21 03:29:57 UTC

In the case where I'm getting problems logging in, javascript is loading content that needs authentication into a page where I already authenticated.  
So the javascript executes without any user interaction which may be why your test case succeeds but we see the authentication problem.

Comment 5 Allan Sandfeld 2010-04-16 18:52:11 UTC

The KHTML implementation of XMLHttpRequest does in fact no have authentication right now.

Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-06-18 14:02:49 UTC

Message from the Bugsquad and Konqueror teams:
This bug is closed as outdated, as we do not have the manpower to maintain the KDE3 version anymore.
If you still can reproduce this issue with Konqueror 4.8.4 or later, please open a new report.
Thank you for your understanding.