How do I keep Firefox from prompting for username/password with HTTP Basic Auth with JQuery AJAX?

The solution is to set the WWW-Authenticate header to something other than Basic. For example set it to:

WWW-Authenticate: None

or

WWW-Authenticate: FormBased

if you use form based login. Then the browser will not show you a login window.

In case you haven't read it:

How can I supress the browser's authentication dialog?

Doesn't look too promising :)

Unfortunatly, I am hitting the same issue here.

In my opinion, Browsers should not give a prompt for an xmlhttprequest. I really wish someone would push that cause people are really wanting to move to jQuery for their auth needs.

Well here is the help I can give you, I found this jQuery Digest thing, I have no idea what it really does or anything, but if someone could take this code the right way, we could have a jquery digest auth system.

https://www.openhub.net/p/digestj

I would think with this handy new AuthDigestDomain option, we could have the above script rewritten or whatever and have the secured area 'linked' together and we could get past this problem once and for all. Well... best of luck =)