Re: Remote RDF datasource and http authentication

Michel Gutierrez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In my chrome application, I use a remote rdf file to populate a tree widget. 
> 
> <tree datasources="http://localhost/data.rdf" ref="urn:root">
> ...
> </tree>
> 
> This works fine if the http server does not require authentication.
> 
> If I setup the server to request basic http authentication, the data is
> simply not loaded, where I would expect mozilla to open the popup login
> box.
> 
> I found that if I setup the login/password within the url
> (http://login:password@localhost/data.rdf), it works but the
> login/password is not synchronized with the one used internally by mozilla
> to access regular html files.
> 
> Does anyone have a workaround for this ?
> 

That's a plain bug, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273587

Axel