263896 - favicon requests prompt for user and password (HTTP header "401 Authentication Required")

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260927

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[post]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

In the page http://www.stefangustafsson.se/test/index.html Firefox 0.10.1 acts
like it gets a HTTP "401 Authentication Required"-header and prompting for user
and password. This page, and all content in the folder "/test/", should not
require authentication although http://www.stefangustafsson.se/ should.

The strange thing is that when Firefox 0.10.1 prompting at
http://www.stefangustafsson.se/test/index.html, the content of the page has
already been received.

Firefox 0.9 (and earlier versions) and browsers like Mozilla and Internet
Explorer are handling this correct (prompting at http://www.stefangustafsson.se/
but not at http://www.stefangustafsson.se/test/).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter the URL http://www.stefangustafsson.se/test/index.html in Firefox 0.10.1
Actual Results:  
Firefox 0.10.1 receives the content of the page and then prompting for user and
password (HTTP header "401 Authentication Required").

Expected Results:  
Only receive the content without promting.

The URL http://www.stefangustafsson.se/test/index.html is located on a
Apache/1.3.27 server.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

From Live HTTP Headers:

http://www.stefangustafsson.se/favicon.ico

GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: www.stefangustafsson.se
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041011 Firefox/0.10
Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 401 Authorization Required
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 03:55:22 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) Chili!Soft-ASP/3.6.2
FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_auth_pgsql/0.9.12
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="StefanGustafsson.se"
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Comment 2

[Roland Stuehmer]

It seems getting the favicon should fail silently. I noticed this bug, too.
Voting...

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260927 ***