Bug 1820807 Comment 7 Edit History

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(In reply to Sunil Mayya from comment #6)
> Hey Luca,
> 
> With our new implementation, on authentication failures we would send the retry requests with auth headers on the new 
> (redirected) channel.  
> Hence, we will be sending the "http-on-modify-request" and "http-on-before-connect" observer notifications for the new channel before sending the request instead of the old channel which received the auth failure status. 
> 
> We would like to know if this would have any impacts on the webextensions? 
> 
> Thanks

Hi Sunil, I'm forwarding your needinfo to Rob, Tob have been working on that area recently enough and so he may be able to provide that assessment sooner.
(In reply to Sunil Mayya from comment #6)
> Hey Luca,
> 
> With our new implementation, on authentication failures we would send the retry requests with auth headers on the new 
> (redirected) channel.  
> Hence, we will be sending the "http-on-modify-request" and "http-on-before-connect" observer notifications for the new channel before sending the request instead of the old channel which received the auth failure status. 
> 
> We would like to know if this would have any impacts on the webextensions? 
> 
> Thanks

Hi Sunil, I'm forwarding your needinfo to Rob, Rob have been working on that area recently enough and so he may be able to provide that assessment sooner.

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