241056 - ' signons.txt ' file growing undefinetly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 218405

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Félix Noir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

(First, excuse me for my bad english ...)

When the browser find an .htaccess who contain special character ( like 'é' ) :

.htaccess :
[...]
AuthName "Hello my name is Félix"
[...]

the file  ' signons.txt ' seems to encode the 'é' character with strange characters.





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build an .htaccess file with 'AuthName "Hello my name is Félix"'
2. Go on the protected directory, make your identification and Open '
signons.txt ' and see what happen in it.wxc
3. Repeat step 2 n times

Actual Results:  
1. You have to enter User/Password every time.
2. The file grow undefinetly, after 20 try, the file size become to 4Mo.
Checking "Saved Password" become impossible
3. More try and the file become so large ( 64Mo in my case ) that FireFox Freeze
the OS (XP) when you want to access to "Saved Password". It take to much Virtual
Memory. The only way to keep system alive is to destroy Firefox task ( When
Process task window works ... And it is not every time... )


See http://www.regliss.com/signons.zip

This file represent my tests on 20 try.

I hope that it just a problem with "special character".

At Least,
And i would like to congratulate you for your fantastic browser. You really make
a fantastic software, Congratulations and thank you Again !

Félix from Paris.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

probably a dupe of bug 228270 

reporter, can you replicate this in a current trunk build?

Comment 2

[Félix Noir]

(In reply to comment #1)
> probably a dupe of bug 228270 
> 
> reporter, can you replicate this in a current trunk build?

Could you explain with simply words "current trunk build" ? My English is so bad.
Thanks.

Comment 3

[Félix Noir]

An example online :

http://www.regliss.com/MozillaBug/

Login : bug
Pass : bug

Comment 4

[David P James]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > probably a dupe of bug 228270 
> > 
> > reporter, can you replicate this in a current trunk build?
> 
> Could you explain with simply words "current trunk build" ? My English is so bad.

He means to test in a more recent build or version, one with a date since
20040318 (your build is 20040206).

<french>
J'assume que vous êtes une francophone...
Il veut dir par "current trunk build" un version de Firefox plus récent que
celle que vous utilisez présentement (le vôtre est de 20040206). Plus
précisement, une avec un date de construction (?) de 20040318 ou supérieur. Vous
pouvez les trouver à
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
latest-trunké a toujours le plus récent.
</french>

While bug 228270 is a possible dupe, this case is probably closer to bug 218405
so I'm duping it against that.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218405 ***