Service workers support basic HTTP authentication

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

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: No WPT tests. Not sure if it's possible to test HTTP authentication in WPT.

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

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=service-workers-support-basic-http-authentication
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Service%20workers%20support%20basic%20HTTP%20authentication
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Service%20workers%20support%20basic%20HTTP%20authentication
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Service%20workers%20support%20basic%20HTTP%20authentication

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

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