261634 - Basic Auth Protected RSS feed will not load until cred. cached in browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259451

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Manon Goo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Basic Auth Protected RSS feed will not load until opened in browser. 
When the site is opend in the Browser and the UID/Passwd is cahed in the browser 
the RSS feed is reloaded correctly after the reload time has expired.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a rss feed on a basic auth protected site
2. load the rss feed into the bookmark manager
3. Close the browser
4. Reopen browser

Actual Results:  
The feed does not display the rss feed

Expected Results:  
It should as me for User ID and password

Comment 1

[Runako Godfrey]

Confirming this is still an issue with 1.0 final.  I'd like to see the browser
have a setting where I can tell it to remember the password for the rss feed, so
live bookmarks work just like the non-password-protected feeds.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259451 ***

Comment 3

[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