214573 - Password Manager: username gets lost when password is wrong in proxy dialog

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Patrick Ammann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When using a proxy with auth.
When entering username and password
and the password is rejected as wrong
the username also gets lost.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use proxy SOCKS V5
2. enter username and wrong password
3. the auth. dialog comes up again with empty fields

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I don't think that this is a bug.
Mozilla doesn't know if the username or the password is wrong it's more secure
that you reenter both.

Comment 2

[Patrick Ammann]

it would be at least nice if the username is kept.
the user knows anyway that something was wrong!
its cosmetic anyway :-)

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->networking.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

valid bug (not confirming because I didn't check for duplicates)

Comment 6

[benc]

Christian: I've scanned through the password manager docs on mozilla, and I
don't think this is a bug.

Why would you store just a username and not a valid password? I suppose it would
make sense if we wanted to support challenge-response accounts. But we've never
gotten that far w/ making PM work. 

How does this compare to other PM module behavior, like http and ftp? I can't
remember.

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

hm? where does password manager come in?

The issue is this: If you want to log in to a proxy server, and you make a typo
in the password... then you expect the dialog to come up again and give you
another chance to enter the password. ideally though, you don't need to retype
the username because it was already correct.

Comment 8

[benc]

Chrstian: 

I understand steps, but then the question is: which component is doing this, and how should it behave?

As I recall, HTTP auth throws away everything if a credential fails to work.

Some login systems discard the username and password toegether if there is an auth  failure (X windows-based login screen). Some leave the username in place. And how does this work elsewhere in the product?