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Bittercoder
Bittercoder

Reputation: 12143

CORS with Internet Explorer - support for basic authentication?

When using CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) with Internet Explorer - does it support providing an Authroization (i.e. for basic Auth)?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 5695

Answers (2)

user2603206
user2603206

Reputation: 1

Any public site that need to support IE7,8,9 withCredentials, DO NOT user CORS. Feature is disabled in internet zone "Access Data Sources Across Domains". Only trusted zone domains can make Cross domain calls.

Upvotes: 0

monsur
monsur

Reputation: 47957

Short answer: no. Longer answer:

Internet Explorer 7 and below has no support for CORS

Internet Explorer 8 and 9 has limited CORS support via the XDomainRequest object. The XDomainRequest object does not support custom headers, therefore it can't support the Authorization header. (source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2010/05/13/xdomainrequest-restrictions-limitations-and-workarounds.aspx)

The upcoming Internet Explorer 10 will have full support for CORS, which includes support for custom headers like Authorization. (source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/09/cors-for-xhr-in-ie10.aspx)

Upvotes: 12

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