Service workers support basic HTTP authentication

Category: Service Worker
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 77)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Displays HTTP authentication dialog boxes even if the request was from a service worker. This shows the native login dialog shown when an HTTP 401 response is received. Note: this requires the network service to be enabled, which is enabled by default on most platforms.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-network-or-cache-fetch
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/623464

Explainers: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/70

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