diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 services/common/tests/unit/head_http.js
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/services/common/tests/unit/head_http.js	Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+ /* Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain.
+   http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ */
+
+Cu.import("resource://services-common/utils.js");
+
+function basic_auth_header(user, password) {
+  return "Basic " + btoa(user + ":" + CommonUtils.encodeUTF8(password));
+}
+
+function basic_auth_matches(req, user, password) {
+  if (!req.hasHeader("Authorization")) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  let expected = basic_auth_header(user, CommonUtils.encodeUTF8(password));
+  return req.getHeader("Authorization") == expected;
+}
+
+function httpd_basic_auth_handler(body, metadata, response) {
+  if (basic_auth_matches(metadata, "guest", "guest")) {
+    response.setStatusLine(metadata.httpVersion, 200, "OK, authorized");
+    response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", 'Basic realm="secret"', false);
+  } else {
+    body = "This path exists and is protected - failed";
+    response.setStatusLine(metadata.httpVersion, 401, "Unauthorized");
+    response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", 'Basic realm="secret"', false);
+  }
+  response.bodyOutputStream.write(body, body.length);
+}