260950 - using a proxy with authentication "nt-domain/user" and "password" results in several proxy authentication dialog, once for each frame, image, iframe etc. of the reuqested web page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrea T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: 

Use a proxy which authenticate using a NT-DOMAIN/NT-USER and PASSWD to logon;
the dialog asking these informations popups several times when loading a page,
usually once for each frame, iframe, image (it seems once for each GET of the
browser...). Sorry but can't give detailed information about the proxy. The
problem occurs even if account informations are stored (saved) by the browser.
The problem doesn't occur with 0.9.3 version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a proxy with an account NT-DOMAIN/NT-USER and PASSWD
2. Visit a web site


Actual Results:  
The proxy login dialog popups several times asking for login and password

Expected Results:  
Account information be asked just once... :-)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Eugene M. Zheganin]

It's not resolved. It's still there. Furthermore, this bug is UNIX-specific, Windows version doesn't have that.