225309 - usernames and passwords in urls are not handled well

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130327

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+

for url of form http://username:[e-mail], the whole URL including
the password is stored in the history and the user doenst get an option to save
the password.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to url of form http://username:password@someplace

Actual Results:  
goes to page. username and password is kept in the address bar and stored in history

Expected Results:  
Ask if password should be saved in password manager. Remove username/password
from url in address bar, do no store username/password in history

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

This is not a bug. This behaviour is by design. It could possibly become a
feature, though. --> enh --> All/All.

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130327 ***

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

v.