Closed Bug 210977 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Mozilla periodically ignores username:password specified as a part of a URL

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(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

x86
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defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED EXPIRED

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(Reporter: shopping, Assigned: darin.moz)

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(Blocks 1 open bug, )

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

When a HTML page contains multiple links to pictures using username/password
embedded into the URL (like http://user:pass@www.microsoft.com/mygif.gif),
Mozilla requests username/password to access the resource even though it has
been supplied already.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Apache Web server 1.3.x (with RH 7.3 or Windows 2000)
2. A folder on the server with pictures and .htaccess file:

AuthName "Authentication required"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile E:/ApacheRoot/private/.htpasswd 

require valid-user

.htpasswd contains user friend with password test.

3. HTML page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2848.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2850.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2884.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2892.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2902.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2903.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2904.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2907.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2913.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_img_2916.jpg'>
<img src='http://friend:test@localhost:8080/_thm/thm_sta_2909.jpg'>
</body>
</html>


Actual Results:  
When the page is executed in Mozilla, password request window appears multiple
time. Then the window appears with only 7-8 of the 13 images displayed.

Apache log contains the following information:

127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2848.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2850.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2892.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2902.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2884.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2904.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2903.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2913.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2907.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_sta_2909.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2916.jpg HTTP/1.1"
401 482
127.0.0.1 - friend [28/Jun/2003:03:17:47 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2848.jpg
HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - friend [28/Jun/2003:03:17:54 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2892.jpg
HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - friend [28/Jun/2003:03:17:56 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2903.jpg
HTTP/1.1" 200 3527
127.0.0.1 - friend [28/Jun/2003:03:17:56 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2884.jpg
HTTP/1.1" 200 2921
127.0.0.1 - friend [28/Jun/2003:03:17:56 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2916.jpg
HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - friend [28/Jun/2003:03:17:56 -0400] "GET /_thm/thm_img_2907.jpg
HTTP/1.1" 304 -

I.e. the user name from the URL was ignored initially.


Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have used the supplied username/password instead.

Reproduced with Mozilla 1.2 and 1.4 RC2. Internet Explorer/Konqueror handle the
above situation correctly.
Probably can be dup'ed to either bug 66177, bug 196090, or whatever the mystery
bug is that someone is planning to dup 196090 against....
->Networking http
Assignee: mstoltz → darin
Component: Security: General → Networking: HTTP
QA Contact: carosendahl → httpqa
can you attach a HTTP log ?
See instructions here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html
Attached file HTTP headers only
If the login pass is included in the URL the Login dialog box pops up. You can
hit cancel on the dialog box several times and the page still loads. If you
check the save password box it ignores that as well.
Blocks: 232560
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Closed: 19 years ago
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