Basic HTTP Authentication with the InAppBrowser plugin

[Warren Wright]

Hi All,

I am putting together a quick prototype at work to demonstrate howe we might wrap an existing web app in a phonegap application using the InAppBrowser plugin.

My first challenge is how one might get past authentication challenges if the URL referenced in window.open requires authentication - for this example simple basic http authentication.

Thank you so much for any suggestions or examples.

Warren

p.s. if anyone has a suggestion for another approach than InAppBrowser, I'm all ears.  The trick is we have a fairly complex web application (order entry system) that has been developed in angular.js with a great deal of work on responsive design, so we'd like to take a look at how this app operates if slotted into a phonegap app as a distribution mechanism (it looks great from what I saw when just displaying it in the InAppBrowser with no authentication the other day).

Warren Wright

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[Warren Wright]

Or is it the case that we would need to customize the iOS plugin for InAppBrowser to specifically account for this, and then do the same for the plugin for each other platform (not ideal)?

[Ville Karavirta]

You can pass the username and password for HTTP basic authentication as part of the URL for the InAppBrowser. So a URL like https://username:pass...@www.yourdomain.com/ should do what you need for your prototype.

Hope this helps,

 Ville

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[Warren Wright]

That worked!  Thanks so much.  I didn't know that trick (obviously).

Warren

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[Kerri Shotts]

Not at all sure this is wise. While the request is encrypted, the sever may end up saving this in the access lot and/or passing it as a referrer to other requests and/or passing it to your analytical engine. You can configure all that out, usually, but proceed very cautiously. 

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