260479 - firefox retry to authenticate ms proxy server for each page request

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256949

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Furkan Duman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT5)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

firefox retry to authenticate ms proxy server for each page request. when I
request a new page, firefox show an proxy authentication dialog, but firefox
repeats that continously for each page request.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect any page onto a MS Proxy Server.
2. Proxy authentication dialog appears.
3. fill username and password in dialog and accept.
4. page shows. but again authentication dialog re-appears.
5. previous version of firefox had not this bug!

Actual Results:  
I install an NTLM Proxy client to automatic authentication for Firefox to MS Proxy.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should authenticate the proxy only once. I would like to automatic
authentication in firefox like Internet Explorer in Windows XP.

Comment 1

[Josh Gunderson]

I have the same problem with the 1.0PR trying to authenticate proxy multiple
times per page view. It also tries to authenticate when clicking a link within
the same domain. I'm using Windows XP Pro with the latest PR of Firefox.
Versions prior to the 1.0PR didn't have this problem.

Comment 2

[Josh Gunderson]

(In reply to comment #1)

Found on this page: http://mozillanews.org/?article_date=2004-09-14%2003-39-44

In about:config
Change network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies to false

By disabling NTLM, you get one authentication when the browser is first opened.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

please download and test Firefox 1.0rc1:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0rc1/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256949 ***