How to pass HTTP AUTH values via prototype Ajax.Request()?

Question

Is there any way to pass HTTP AUTH username and password along with an Ajax.request()? Basically, I'm trying to find the equivalent of:

curl user:pass http://url.com

Is seems this has to be available, but I can't figure it out. If not, is there another JS alternative?

Answer 1

I know that someone wrote a user extension for the ExtJs library that provides configuration options for Basic Authentication in standard Ajax requests, and automatically handles the Base64 encoding.

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21681

Answer 2

I'm not sure about Prototype, but you can pass the username and password as the fourth and fifth arguments of the underlying open method of XmlHttpRequest, as shown here.

Answer 3

Did you figure out a way to do this? I'm also trying to do HTTP Authentication with Prototype's Ajax.Request().

Justin