189954 - No chance to re-authenticate on 401 Error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[speralta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115

browser does not allow user to re-authenticate when 401 error has occurred. 
Browser must be restarted before you are allowed to attempt another login. 
Tested on Mozilla 1.2.1 on Linux and 1.2.1 on Windows 2000.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fail an attempt to login to an htaccess protected location such as
http://library.willamette.edu/home/staff/lib_only/
2. Try again to login without restarting the browser.
3.

Actual Results:  
browser auto-displayed a 401 error rather than continue to attempt to login as
netscape 4.78 and earlier would do.

Expected Results:  
Browser allows user to attempt multiple re-logins after 401 error.  Ideally,
administrator could set an arbitrary number of attempts to relogin before
failing and displaying 401 error screen.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme, linux trunk build 2003-01-18-22.  Reloading the page reprompts for
the password...

Comment 2

[WD]

WFM Win2k 2003012108

Comment 3

[Patrick Xia]

wfm linux 2002121217

-> RESOLVED WORKSFORME [total three wfm on all OSs]
Reporter: Please REOPEN this bug if you disagree with this result. Try a clean
profile, or a more recent build.