AJAX XHR support for Basic Auth

[clvgt12]

Hi,

Does the current API support Basic Authentication using AJAX and XMLHttpRequest() calls ?

I am attempting this with javascript inside the Firefox browser:

function SendAPI(username,passwd,api) {
var req=new XMLHttpRequest();
req.onreadystatechange=onReadyStateChangeHandler();
console.log("SendAPI: GET:"+api);
req.open("GET", api, true, username, passwd);
req.send(null);
return(req.responseText);
}

What I see on Firefox's javascript console is this:

SendAPI: GET:https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/recent
NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI: Access to restricted URI denied

Why is the API call denied ? Is it the way I am calling the API with XHR ?

I have successfully made API calls with Basic Auth using curl from bash. So I know Basic Auth is supported. By why the rejection with XHR ?