Web and WebWorks Development

[bert2002]

Hi,

in one application I wanted to open a url and passing username and password for normal http authentification. For example:

function init() {

        window.location = "https://user:password@mydomain.org/mobile/";
}

 In the browser its working fine, but as a webworks application I get an "Invald Url". Any recommendations to solve this in a different way?

[astanley]

Is this for the Smartphone SDK?  if so, the problem is the underlying BrowerField J2ME object does interpret the URL correctly as the browser.  

Its very important to recognize that  BrowserField != browser

The only thing in common between these two should be the rendering engine they share - how page content is displayed.  The functionality & interaction of content such as links / caching / etc. are separate, and it is often in these places that we see a disconnect between behavior of the browser and a WebWorks app:

A clean solution doesn't jump to mind, unfortunately.  What I could suggest is using XmlHttpRequest to send an asyncronous request to mydomain.org, providing the credentials as part of the xhr.open() .  That might allow your webserver to receive a regular HTTP request like this:

window.location = "https://mydomain.org/mobile/";

because you have already authenticated with the server?