190919 - password dialog gives remote error page on cancel

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123652

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[beanladen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I don't know if this is a bug report or more an enhancement request
(from a user's view it's more likely a bug).
If we go to a password protected site and cancel the dialog, we
get the error page of the remote server in spite of having pressed
cancel. This is currently handled this way on all types of browsers
(and it's also annoying and unnecessary on all types of browsers), 
but I feel this is somewhat inconsistent in respect of what users 
expect and get when they presses cancel on other types of operations.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Goto a password protected page
2.Press cancel in the password dialog
3.watch that annoying error page poppig up

Actual Results:  
see 3.


Expected Results:  
Should just stay on the page where the password dialog appeared.

Comment 1

[benc]

-> HTTP
This happens only in HTTP because the way web servers work, a 401 error is
returned w/ an HTML page. The browser parses the 401, and asks you for a
password. If you cancel, it displays the response body instead.

darin: this should probably RESOLVE/INVALID, but if you want to take it as an RFE...

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

some websites provide information with the 401 page such as what you can do if
you forgot your password.  there is a bug elsewhere to add an additional
button.. something to the effect of what you desire here.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

see also related bug 123652

Comment 4

[beanladen]

reopen for duplicate

Comment 5

[beanladen]

perfect duplicate !

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123652 ***

Comment 6

[benc]

VERIFIED/DUPE.