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Removes HTTP Basic Authentication credentials from `location.href` in Webkit.

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location.href Cleaner

location.href Cleaner removes HTTP Basic Authentication credentials from location.href to work around a Webkit bug.

If HTTP Basic Authentication (BA) credentials are included in the URL, Webkit stores them in window.location.href. If location.href includes the BA credentials, this script removes them with history.replaceState() or a page reload if the History API is not supported. If there are no BA credenitals in location.href, this script will do nothing.

Include this script in the <head>, before everything else. It is best run as an inline script so as not to block the rest of the page loading. E.g.:

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        // See github.com/BevanR/location.href-cleaner
        (function(){var a=location.origin+location.pathname+location.search+location.hash;location.href!==a&&("function"===typeof history.replaceState?history.replaceState({},document.title,a):location.href=a)})();
    </script>

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