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Chrome throws 401 restricted errors for Basic auth'd IMG-urls in the vein of http://user:pass@path.to/image, but did not do this before with the same resources and code. When called directly, as in "open in new tab" the images load without a hitch. I'm puzzled. Any ideas?

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    I've encountered the same. I guess it has something to do with the latest chrome update. In Firefox everything works as exspected. – wulfovitch Oct 09 '13 at 08:00
  • Experiencing the same issue with Chrome v30. – chrr Oct 09 '13 at 09:10
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    After further research the issue has been raised with the Chromium team - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=303046 – chrr Oct 09 '13 at 12:40
  • If the image is hosted on a different domain from the webpage, and you try to do "Copy URL" it copies: "http:// – Jay Oct 11 '13 at 20:55

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From Chromium issue:

cbentzel@chromium.org wrote:
This is an intentional change - there are lots of security/compatibility tradeoffs that we have to make when tightening up browser security and in this case the decision was made that the compatibility risk was worth it

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