MetaMask / MetaMask/metamask-mobile
Websites protected by Basic HTTP authentication are not supported
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Description
### **Description**
It's not possible to access websites protected by Basic HTTP auth .
### **Technical Details**
When the server returns the HTTP code 401 Authorization required, Metamask simply displays it instead of asking for the credentials and re-sumbitting the authenticated request.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files or tests; begin by locating the mobile dapp browser's handling of HTTP 401 responses. Reproduce a Basic-auth request, then verify that credentials are requested and the authenticated request is resubmitted instead of displaying the 401.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native, typescript
- Domain
- authentication, mobile, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100