217353 - Fails to auto-fill in a password form depending on URL path

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[Mikhail Zabaluev]

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

I'm using a website that provides a login form
on its main page. This main page is accessible via two equivalent URLs,
http://ej.ru/forum/ and http://ej.ru/forum/index.php
I discovered that the Password Manager doesn't fill in the form under the first
of the two URLs, but works as expected under the second URL.
Unfortunately, this site is in Russian, but I think the bug can be reproduced on
a crafted test page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Establish a site with a test password form, accessible alternatively via a
directory-like URL ending with a slash (presumably, with default index page
handler) and an URL ending with a file-like name. In my case, it is
http://ej.ru/forum/ and http://ej.ru/forum/index.php
2. "Log in" with a username and a password (actual handling of login data is
irrelevant). When the Password Manager prompt pops up, opt to remember the
credentials.
3. Test the remembered credentials against both URLs.

Actual Results:  
On loading the slash-terminated URL, the password form isn't filled in.

Expected Results:  
On loading both URLs the password form should be filled in with stored
credentials (possibly after prompting the user for the master password).

Password encryption is enabled.

Comment 1

[Mikhail Zabaluev]

Attachment: Login form HTML from http://ej.ru/forum/

This is a login form HTML markup taken from http://ej.ru/forum/
it can be helpful in reproducing the bug. The text is saved in UTF-8 encoding.

Comment 2

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Did you try this the other way around ? If you enter and save the password for
/, does it work for index.php ?

Comment 3

[Mikhail Zabaluev]

Answering to comment #2:
No, it doesn't work either.

Comment 4

[Mikhail Zabaluev]

Correction: it works the same way as described in the original report.
For /index.php, the password is recalled, but for /, it's not.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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