How to set the

Question

I would like to display the image from a network camera on my web page, but the image is behind a HTTP basic authentication server.

In Firefox and Chrome I can do th

Answer 1

You can load your img with AJAX, using XMLHttpRequest. As you might know, XMLHttpRequest has a setRequestHeaders method, so you will be able to manipulate headers for your request, hence, you will be able to do basic HTTP authentication.