[Hampshire] AJAX, digest auth, and Firefox

All -

I'm trying to write an RESTful AJAX application, using HTTP digest
authentication on the REST resources. Up until now, it's been working
fine. However, today I added some code, and Firefox now asks for a
username and password using its standard login box, for most AJAX
requests.

The code I added was in one of the existing AJAX handlers, to make
a further AJAX request, based on the returned data. The code looks
something like this:


basic_ajax_get(url1, callback1);

function callback1(req)
{
    data = parse_result(req.responseText);
    url2 = some_function_of(data);
    bas0c_ajax_get(url2, callback2); // Works fine without this
}

function callback2(req)
{
    // Do other stuff here
}

function basic_ajax_get(url, callback)
{
    var req = get_ajax_object(); // Just gets a new XMLHTTPRequest object
    var account = document.getElementById("account").value
    var password = document.getElementById("password").value

    req.onreadystatechange = function() { callback(req); };
    req.open("GET", api + url, true, account, password);
    req.send("");
}

Has anyone else come across this issue? If so, do you have any idea
how might I go about fixing it?

Hugo.

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