183041 - can't view IMAP messages while browser is waiting for .htaccess authentication

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Jase Roberts]

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

The mail client will not display IMAP messages while the browser is waiting for
a username/password on a .htaccess protected page.  The "loading" bar just keeps
spinning, but the mail won't display until the password is entered (or cancelled).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mail and Browser in separate windows
2. Point the browser at a site which uses .htaccess for authentication (try
<http://www.healthcarecoach.com/admin/> )
3. Without entering username/password, switch to mail client and try to view an
IMAP message

Actual Results:  
The "Loading Document..." message continued to show, message does not appear
until the password entry box is closed in the Browser.

Expected Results:  
Should have displayed the message.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this looks like a similar bug I've seen floating around - is SSL involved?

Comment 2

[Jase Roberts]

no, i don't think it has anything to do with SSL. it's a normal
.htaccess-protected directory without additional encryption.  i had a coworker
test (win 2k, moz 1.2) immediately after i filed the bug and he got the same
result -- the mail client just sat there and thought until we cancelled the
user/pass box in the browser.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

there are dups of this around - a modal dialog in the browser blocks mail news.
It's some sort of event pumping problem, I guess - I'll try to find the original
bug...

Comment 4

[Ian Neal]

I also see this on a SSL authentication (to a colbolt box) using BuildID
2004100306 on Win XP SP2

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

I thought the networking rework that Darin did a while ago fixed all this...