javascript authenticate with htpasswd and fetch json

Question

I have an API that generates json, problem is its password protected url, using Apache htpasswd.

how can I authenticate and retrieve the json from javascript, since all methods I have tried give me access deined (I've been using http://username:passwd@urldotcom/path/to/stuff)

Thanks

Answer 1

I figured out how to do it.

 var something = jQuery.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: url,
    username: "user",
    password: "password"    
});

url is a variable I declared earlier of format http:///path/to/json