1337417 - http auth for atom feeds

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Maik Holtkamp]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Build ID: 20170125094131

Steps to reproduce:

I try to subscribe to an atom feed (from phpBB3). It stoped working after updating TB (45.7.0) and probably phpbb3 to 3.2 - not really sure. Before it worked. However, the same URL (C&P) is working in Firefox and Chrome here. W3C validation says it's a valid Atom 1.0.

The server (debian, apache, mysql) is using ssl (letsencrypt) and to receive the topics I have to identify by http-auth. No issue with feeds not using http-auth.


Actual results:

Just nothing :(.


Expected results:

After deleting everything (credentials, subscribtion and folder), restarting TB and C&P the url from firefox into subscribtion TAB of TB it should ask for credentials and show the recent postings afterwards. 
Even if the credentials are still in TB, nothing happens :(.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Alta88, this is your area, right?

Comment 2

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Maik, can you provide the URL of such a feed, please?

Comment 3

[alta88]

Without a problematic feed url, or an attached console log with feed debug level turned on (as described in the guide[1]), this will be closed incomplete.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-subscribe-news-feeds-and-blogs

Comment 4

[Maik Holtkamp]

I am not totally sure which one is best practise, but both work in FF or Chrome, it they have my credentials. This one was used for years:

https://www.medical-city.org/feed.php?auth=http

After problem began I saw in apaches log that thus URL is redirected to:

https://www.medical-city.org/app.php/feed

dunno if this redirection was introduced with phpbb3.2 or in place before.

Comment 5

[alta88]

So the first link in comment 4 redirects to the second link. In neither case (in Fx) was there any auth challenge.  And as of right now, the file contains valid feed xml, but has no items; you can view the source in Fx to see this.  It's possible to subscribe the first link in Tb, but the log will show a 301 Moved Permanently error, and it will just use the file redirected url.

It doesn't look like there's any auth problem, just a publisher in flux, and nothing in the file (right now) to download.  If this changes, feel free to reopen with more info.  Also, turn on debug so you can see for yourself what's going on.