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OpenLayers 3: Basic Authentication

Is it possible to do basic authentication with OpenLayers 3? I found answers that you need to do an ajax-Call and use the token in a "Authentication"-Header.

I wonder if it's possible to tell OpenLayers which header to use because for all my other http-Request I need another Authentication-Header.

Any ideas on this?

Solution

  • I didn't find a better solution than doing the following:

    $("<iframe src='https://myWMS.server.com/helloWorld?'/>").on('load', function () {
    createMap();
}

    If I create the map outside the iframe, I get asked for each tile for a password (because the tiles are loaded asynchronously and don't have the authentication header yet).

    So now I send the first request -> get the log-in prompt and the header as a response -> then when I create the map and the tiles are requested they already contain the header.