HTTP Authentication with HTML forms : Paul James
The main reason people walk away from using HTTP authentication is that they want control over the look of the login form and most browsers display an awful looking dialog box. So what we need is a way for HTML forms to pass HTTP auth data when it’s submitted. The HTML spec provides HTML forms as a way to create queries and to POST urlencoded data to a URL, but can we subvert it?
With the power of javascript we can.
super simple http authentication the ajaxian way.