1534976 - pasted url in Downloads does not show auth dialog

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect, P5)

Description

[David Balažic]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

• put into clipboard an URL that points to a resource that requires basic HTTP authentication
• open Downloads window (ctrl+j)
• paste the URL

Actual results:

A short HTML file with the 403 error message as content is downloaded.

Expected results:

• The auth dialog should appear and ask for name and password
• the correct file should download

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Unfortunately, bug 1529901 did not fix this.

This is old regression since Firefox 28.

Comment 2

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Really old regression, with a simple work around for the user (pasting in the URL bar instead of the Downloads window).

So while it would be nice to fix, I don't see us taking on this work in the near future

Comment 3

[Neha Kochar [:neha]]

Bulk change for all regression bugs with status-firefox67 as 'fix-optional' to be marked 'affected' for status-firefox68.

Comment 4

[David Balažic]

(In reply to :Felipe Gomes (needinfo me!) from comment #2)

Really old regression, with a simple work around for the user (pasting in the URL bar instead of the Downloads window).

So while it would be nice to fix, I don't see us taking on this work in the near future

No, that is different.
Pasting the URL into URL bar will load and display the document in the browser window, instead of downloading and saving to filesystem.