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iOS 7 breaks windows authentication.

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

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 6:26 AM

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Dec 2, 2013 12:10 PM in response to be05x5

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?

Dec 2, 2013 12:33 PM in response to mannaggia

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.

iOS 7 breaks windows authentication.

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