Re: Basic authentication

sunitha <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:36:40 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 13, 3:55 pm, Derrick Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've found that using the nsIHttpAuthManager does not seem to work.
> At least, replacing it doesn't (mine never gets invoked, even if I
> install it as soon as Mozilla is initialized).
>
> Still @ the drawing board.

May be you can use setRequestHeader method on nsIHttpChannel for
setting basic authentication. I think you have to add "http-on-modify-
request" event to registered nsIObserver before that.