235346 - HTTP authentication cannot be cancelled ?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55181

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Emmanuel Blot]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Whichever option is given to the password manager, it seems impossible to clean
up the http authentication of a session.

Firefox (and I guess Mozilla ?) needs to be -closed- in order to clean up the
HTTP authentication credentials.

This is a problem since several tabs may be used in Firefox, and that one may
not want to close and loose all his browsed document to start a new HTTP
authentication against a server (as HTTP authentication credentials are shared
among all tabs, closing and opening another tab does not help)

Moreover, these credentials may be sensitive information and should be cleared
whenever the user selects 'clean password information', shouldn't it ?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
HTTP credentials cannot be cleaned up if FireFox is not closed

Expected Results:  
Sonething (password manager seems a good candidate) to clean up these
credentials on user's request

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

There is an extension that clears HTTP auth.
http://www.mmcc.cx/mozilla/

To do what you are seeking innately is bug 55181.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55181 ***