This is a HUGE problem. Please fix this as soon as possible. It does work on Chrome but Chrome on iPad is pretty bad...
If anyone has found a workaround please, please let me know.
Thanks for all of the help. 🙂
iPad 2, iOS 7
Finally!!! Apple released the new patch 7.0.3.
I just installed on my iPad and voila...it works. No need to do any workaround anymore.
Disabling Kerberos in IIS seemed to work for me initially, but the problem reappeared within a day or two. I'd be curious to hear if anybody sees longterm success with this.
Glad the new patch fixed the issue for you n4ndo. I will try tonight
Can confirm, iOS 7.0.3 has fixed the issue.
And of course the changelog mentions nothing about it....
7.0.3 fixed the issue for our Sharepoint sites (Kerberos). I have heard nothing concrete back from the support ticket I opened.
Confirming that updating to 7.0.3 fixed our authentication issues.
Fixed for us also. Extremely frustrating that it was not mentioned in the changelog or even an acknowledgement that it was a problem by Apple.
Obviously the changelog they publish is not comprehensive of all the things changed in the release.
I am confirming that this has resolved our issue too!!
I want to add that it worked for us as we'll but it took way too long and our sales people began to suffer. I am better now and I thank all of you for helping and keeping this post alive. 60 calls to apple later , me alone! Thanks guys we did it.
ditto this fixed our problem too.
This is again broken in 7.0.4 where it was fixed in 7.0.3.
To test this: create a homescreen webapp that accesses a server page protected by basic authentication.
It prompts for basic authentication and once that dialog is completed, the app hangs with a whitescreen (or the apple image screen you setup in the <head>),.
It works the first time, but not on later times.
Can anyone else confirm this issue again in 7.0.4 as well?
Still works for me in 7.0.4.
Definitely occuring for me again under 7.0.4... Try closing the app and re-running...
If i turn off basic auth from apache (that is i'm not changing my javascript), the app loads and runs, and when I re-enable basic auth from apache the app fails to load. So it has something to do with basic auth and not my code.
I must add that that when it fails it displays a prior startup image (which must be cached), rather than a whitescreen (no startup images) which the current app has.
I suspect there's some interaction with html5 AppCache and basic auth ... I'm not explicitly using AppCache (, that is loading a manifest...) but by default one's page is cached anyway.
The problem that got this thread started was not related to basic authentication. It was Windows authentication via IIS. Sounds like you have a different problem.
iOS 7 breaks windows authentication.
