1429320 - Allow add-ons to support NTLM authentication

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Mathieu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180108140638

Steps to reproduce:

First, sorry if the bug is not fully qualified.
It's seems that the *new* Firefox Quantum don't allow add-ons to support support NTLM authentication.
You wand find more information here.
https://github.com/kee-org/browser-addon/issues/87
Thanks.

Comment 1

[Florian Bender]

Addons could register password prompt handlers and Firefox could add a button to the password prompts that allow the extension to figure which site is requesting, the headers, etc. and then inject the credentials. This would require a user interaction but is safe from extensions doing everything automatically (which could a be a security risk).

Comment 2

[Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster]]

Hi Mathieu, this has been added to the agenda for the January 23, 2018 WebExtensions APIs triage. Would you be able to join us? 

Here’s a quick overview of what to expect at the triage: 

* We normally spend 5 minutes per bug
* The more information in the bug, the better
* The goal of the triage is to give a general thumbs up or thumbs down on a proposal; we won't be going deep into implementation details

Relevant Links: 

* Wiki for the meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Triage#Next_Meeting
* Meeting agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mc0h5OVd30WBjCORssdifZRXYQrk6WcTqX1cw6ADO9k/edit#
* Vision doc for WebExtensions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Vision

Comment 3

[Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster]]

This design has been approved; patches are welcome.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk move of bugs per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1483958

Comment 5

[Laim Noah]

move to bulk my site check (In reply to Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster] from comment #2)

Hi Mathieu, this has been added to the agenda for the January 23, 2018
WebExtensions APIs triage. Would you be able to join us?

Here’s a quick overview of what to expect at the triage:

• We normally spend 5 minutes per bug
• The more information in the bug, the better
• The goal of the triage is to give a general thumbs up or thumbs down on a
  proposal; we won't be going deep into implementation details

Relevant Links:

• Wiki for the meeting:
  https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Triage#Next_Meeting
• Meeting agenda: https://easycpstest.com/
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/
  1Mc0h5OVd30WBjCORssdifZRXYQrk6WcTqX1cw6ADO9k/edit#
• Vision doc for WebExtensions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Vision