When receiving a 401 HTTP response during the WebSocket handshake, Chrome will attempt to continue authentication on the same socket. Windows HTTP authentication usually requires a single connection to be reused for authentication to succeed. Until now, Chrome has always closed the connection on a 401 status response, so Windows authentication has not worked. Windows authentication support is mostly useful in enterprise environments where single-sign-on is used.

Specification

Specification link


Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink>Network>WebSockets


Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

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  • Shipped/Shipping
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  • Strongly positive

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Last updated on 2021-12-21