1212727 - Firefox does not pass the proxy password with a non-English character correctly

Status: NEW

(Core :: Networking: Proxy, defect, P5)

Description

[Mustafa Çetinkaya]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150630154324

Steps to reproduce:

When HTTP-Proxy asks for password, I used the actual password which includes a non-English character to get rejected by the proxy server, namely squid.


Actual results:

I get rejected by the server, wrong password.


Expected results:

Password accepted and permission granted.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has nothing to do with form controls; this is all necko.

Did the password include characters that are not representable in ISO-8859-1?  Because last I checked the HTTP spec was basically not set up to do non-ISO-8859-1 passwords via HTTP Auth; we have existing bugs on this.

Comment 2

[Mustafa Çetinkaya]

No, actually it didn't.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK.  Do you happen to know what actually went on the wire?  Did we encode the password as UTF-8 while the server expects ISO-8859-1 or vice versa or something else?

Comment 4

[Mustafa Çetinkaya]

I'm clueless on that matter. The only thing I know is that the Squid proxy on the other end expects the user login and password. I might have to check with the administrators maybe?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I guess bug 546330 is related...

Comment 6

[Julian Reschke]

The suite of HTTP specs now *does* answer this somewhat; see <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7617.html> and the related bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489>.

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 9

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 10

[BMO Automation]

Moving bug to Core/Networking: Proxy.