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 401. Return a 200 code instead and handle this in your JQuery client.
- Change the method that you're using for authorization to a custom value in your header. Browsers will display the popup for Basic and Digest. You have to change this on both the client and the server.
- headers : { "Authorization" : "BasicCustom" }
- Alternatively, if you can customize your server response, you could return a 403 Forbidden.
- The browser will not open the authentication popup and the jquery callback will be called.
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