15959 - Unable to use Basic Authentication

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6144

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[evan]

Basic Authentication fails when I attempt it, and the server complains about the
Authentication string it received.


After the first attempt, the username and password fields change color and will
not accept text any more.

Comment 1

[Steve Coffman]

On RedHat 6.0, with Milestone 10, I got the authentication window, and submitted
it (clicked "OK") (this is step 1). It popped up a couple more times (four?
five?) without being able to accept input I dismissed them in either by
clicking cancel, or by closing the dialogs window. I even hit Mozilla's
stop button at one point. The page loaded then loaded, using Basic
Authentication just fine (step 2), although the image on the page didn't load
(it used the alt text instead of the gif). After this, I tried manually typing
the URL to a page on the sub web (this is the same session) and it behaved as in
Step 2 (none of the dialogs allowed input), only it didn't actually load the
page. I tried cancelling the dialog, hitting ok, closing the dialogs window, but
I couldn't get it to actually load the page in the same manner as the last one.
I'd get a more reliable repro case where it actually loads, but my machine's 200
mhtz, and not quite up to Mozilla's present incarnation.

Comment 2

[Gagan]

the basic auth is not persistent right now (ie. the login/passwd is not being
saved for subsequent requests to the same server) have a dupe somewhere.

Comment 3

[Michael Lowe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6144 ***

Comment 4

[leger]

Resetting QA contact from leger.

Comment 5

[leger]

Bulk move of all Necko (to be deleted component) bugs to new Networking

component.

Comment 6

[Joseph Elwell]

[bugday] yeah. i'm marking verified as this bug is the old basic auth
persistence problem.