Avoid HTTP auth popup in a chrome extension (digest)

Question

I\'m currently developing a chrome extension, I need to access some http-auth protected resources (webdav). The HTTP auth is using (in the best case) a digest authentication.

Answer 1

It's really seems to be a lack in chrome behavior, other people are wishing to see something as the mozBakgroundRequest Chris highlighted, there already a a bug report for that.

There are (hackish) workarounds suggested by some developers in the bugtracker :

• use a webworker and a timeout to perform the request
• do the same with the background page

In both case, the benefit is that it won't pop an authentication box... But you will never know if it's a real server timeout or a 401. (I didn't tested those workarounds).