256724 - Bookmarks to pages requiring authentication

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133755

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Adam Reyher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

I have added several pages to my bookmarks which require HTTP authentication
login to view the site. However, when I go to my bookmarks and view the menu
where these pages are located, a couple of HTTP login boxes appear for me to
login. I assume this is because FireFox is trying to access the site icon to be
placed next to the name of the bookmark.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a site to the bookmarks which requires HTTP authentication to view.
2. Browse to the menu where these bookmarks are stored.
3. A HTTP login box will appear.

Actual Results:  
Refer to "Details" and #3 in "Steps to Reproduce"

Expected Results:  
Basically, I believe that when adding the site to the bookmarks, the icon should
be stored on your computer somewhere so that Firefox can use this icon without
having to look for it on the site, thus causing the program to need to be
authenticated. When you do login to the site "for real," Firefox should check
this icon again to see if it's been updated.

If there is some way around this without have to store the icon on your
computer, by all means, that should be the method taken.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133755 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change