265229 - squid proxy authentification credentials not cached

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Hadi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: all available version including latest Firebird release

Any Mozilla based web browser behind a squid proxy with enabled digest 
authentication does not remember the users credentials. Even if the password 
manager option is enabled the credentials have to be entered several time for 
a single web page (for example news.google.com). The squid proxy used is a 
squid/2.5.STABLE4

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the Browser
2. Navigate to news.google.com
3. The browser requires you to enter the user credentials many, many times

Actual Results:  
I get bored and use IE

Expected Results:  
The software should remember the current proxy user's session after the first 
time the user credentials were entered

We tested this with different OS as basis. The same error can be reproduced 
with several Linux distributions as client systems as well as with Windows 
2000 and Windows XP. We tried older as well as newer mozilla based browsers. 
Even the latest Firefox build did not change its behavior.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

Hadi,

Many people use Digest authentication with Mozilla without any trouble. 
Something must be unusual in this case.  Can you please assist us by generating
a Mozilla HTTP log?  Instructions are here:

  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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