Hello,
I develop a Chrome plugin that uses XMLHttpRequest to send GET HTTP request with an username/password to a basic-auth-protected URL, so that it can then "auto-login" to it afterwards (since Chrome caches credentials for HTTP basic-auth). It used to work fine, but started failing a while ago. The code of the plugin hasn't changed, so I thought it could have to do with Chrome itself. I downloaded a previous version for OSX (17) and bam, the plugin worked again.
After some additional research, I found out that it might have to do with Chrome 19 not supporting the username:pwd@url syntax for authenticating to basic-auth protected URLs. Is that true? Is there an workaround to it?
Thanks,
- Marcelo.
