title: HTTP Basic Authentication - Password only, no username?
body: <p>I am trying to connect to a Windows Azure Mobile Service. I can call an endpoint via browser, but I am getting prompted to enter username and password. I enter my 'Application Key' as password, but leave the username blank and from then on it works fine.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way of calling the endpoint without entering the password? Normally I would try:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://username:password@domainname.com" rel="nofollow">http://username:password@domainname.com</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But as there is no username, the following does not work:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://:password@domainname.com" rel="nofollow">http://:password@domainname.com</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What can I do? the reason behind this is, that I do not want to use the Mobile Services SDK.</p>