Send asynchronous XmlHttpRequest through javascript with authentication

[t4k30ff]

Hello,

I was currently experimenting with jelly and javascript and wrote a RootAction that would be accessed by the loaded page every second through a timeout.

The problem i face now is that if i export the hpi from my test server to a "real" one (it's a server on my laptop aswell but with accounts and stuff) i get a 403 forbidden and the response reads "Authentication required".

So i did some research and i found that i have to add the "Authentication" header to my request with the credentials.

But my problem now is how to get these credentials (mostly password/-hash; i can get username through ${user.name} in jelly).

I'd be glad if you could help me.

Thanks in advance

[Tim Jacomb]

You don't pass the credentials, you pass along the users cookies

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[Gavin Mogan]

I'd have to look up how we do it currently but generally you want with credentials to be set to true so cookies and all get passed

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/withCredentials

The org wide GitHub search is pretty helpful at finding examples.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Ajenkinsci+xmlhttprequest&type=code

Though I'm guessing why very little shows up is most people are using the prototypejs (boo) or jquery ajax helpers.

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[t4k30ff]

That was it! Thank you very much.