SSE with Authorization header

[jmaynier]

Hi,

I use token sent in the Authorization header to authenticate/authorized the user for every xhr request. With SSE, it does not seems to be sent. I set the withCredentials flag, but it didn't changed anaything.
How can I have the token sent with the request that open the SSE ?

[Yaffle]

Did you try with username and password embedded in the URL?
( http://username:password@hostname ) ?

[jmaynier]

I already have an auth token set. For every xhr request I set it. For now I have used the code from klobucar@f3af4fa
to handle headers.

[Yaffle]

There is no support for extra headers in the specification - http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
Also, I cannot understand, why http://username:password@hostname does not work for you.

[Yaffle]

I tested http://username:password@hostname with this polyfill and with native EventSources in Chrome and Firefox and basic auth. works fine, except with native EventSource in Opera 12.