1387367 - Authentication not triggered when mailnews window was opened first

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1347857

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[Stefan A. Möller]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 SeaMonkey/2.48
Build ID: 20170707010522

Steps to reproduce:

1. Make sure no seamonkey process ist running.
2. Open the mailnew component seamonkey.exe -mail
3. Open a browser window.
4. Go to a site using basic HTTP authentication.



Actual results:

No password prompt. Webserver responds 401 Authorization Required.

Error console says (at step 3, opening the browser window):

Zeitstempel: 04.08.2017 10:47:45
Fehler: TypeError: browser[name] is undefined
Quelldatei: resource://devtools/client/framework/gDevTools.jsm
Zeile: 160

Zeitstempel: 04.08.2017 10:47:45
Fehler: TypeError: menu is null
Quelldatei: resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/client/framework/browser-menus.js
Zeile: 341

and then (at step 4, loading the protected site):

Zeitstempel: 04.08.2017 10:48:33
Fehler: TypeError: win.gBrowser is undefined
Quelldatei: resource://gre/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js
Zeile: 1373

Zeitstempel: 04.08.2017 10:48:33
Fehler: nsPrompter: Delegation to password manager failed: [Exception... "[JavaScript Error: "win.gBrowser is undefined" {file: "resource://gre/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js" line: 1373}]'[JavaScript Error: "win.gBrowser is undefined" {file: "resource://gre/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js" line: 1373}]' when calling method: [nsIPromptFactory::getPrompt]"  nsresult: "0x80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JAVASCRIPT_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/components/nsPrompter.js :: Prompter.prototype.getPrompt :: line 42"  data: yes]
Quelldatei: resource://gre/components/nsPrompter.js
Zeile: 44

Zeitstempel: 04.08.2017 10:48:33
Fehler: uncaught exception: 2147500033

Zeitstempel: 04.08.2017 10:48:33
Fehler: TypeError: checkValue is undefined
Quelldatei: resource://gre/components/nsPrompter.js
Zeile: 741



Expected results:

Seamonkey should display the password dialog.


This issue seems to be a follow-up to Bug 1301036.

Comment 1

[Stefan A. Möller]

> This issue seems to be a follow-up to Bug 1301036.

Oops, wrong number. I meant: This issue seems to be a follow-up to Bug 1300539.

Comment 2

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Check the 2.48 release notes under "Known Issues". Will be fixed in the next release.