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Asked: 2026-06-07T08:58:56+00:00

I need to make a page that will Login to a site automatically via

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I need to make a page that will

  1. Login to a site automatically via http-authentication
  2. Show said site with an iframe

I was thinking I could use XHR and specify the login headers directly, and then use javascript to create the iframe. Does this make sense? Will it work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Due to the same-origin-policy your XHR approach won’t work.

    However, for HTTP authentication you can simply include the data in the url, i.e. the src of the <iframe>:

    <iframe src="http://username:password@domain.tld/..."></iframe>

    I think I don’t have to mention that this should not be done if the login credentials are sensitive – they are likely to show up in the browser history.

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