181048 - Re-prompted for username/password during news reading - Pw Mgr should kick in!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 96896

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Stefan K. Berg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

During the initial connection to my NNTP server I am not prompted for
username/password since I have specified this to be stored in the password
manager in Mozilla. The fact that Mozilla actually sends authentication data is
verified with Ethereal. Fine.

However, reading news thru my NNTP server and performing e.g. a "mark thread as
read" at a high rate, Mozilla will at some intervals drop the NNTP TCP
connection and reconnect (verified with Ethereal). Hopefully this is a normal
behavior. :)

The problem is this:

When reconnecting, the NNTP server will send a 381 message forcing an
authentication exchange and this time Mozilla will prompt me for my
username/password even though it is stored in the password manager. That is what
I consider to be a bug.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Connect to NNTP-server which has authentication enabled. This server's login
credentials shall be pre-stored in Mozilla's Password Manager.
2.Enter a group with many unread threads.
3.Press "t" at a high rate.


Actual Results:  
Prompted for Username/Password.

Expected Results:  
Re-used the credentials stored in the Password Manager, just as it did when
connecting initially.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96896 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup