How to prevent browser to invoke basic auth popup and handle 401 error using Jquery?
I need to send authorization request using basic auth. I have successfully implemented this using jquery. However when I get 401 error basic auth browser popup is opened and jquery ajax error callback is not called. nwinkler I was facing this issue recently, too. Since you can't change the browser's default behavior of showing the popup in case of a 401 ( basic or digest authentication), there are two ways to fix this: Change the server response to not return a 401 . Return a 200 code instead and handle this in your jQuery client. Change the method that you're using for authorization to a