265292 - proxy authentication dialogs are "anonymous"

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[A. Sapuntzakis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: veresion 0.8 (20040913)


The window title is "Prompt". This is bad because it encourages sloppy security
practices on the part of the user. It should say something like "Thunderbird RSS
proxy authentication" or "Thunderbird Download proxy authentication".

This was less noticeable when it only (?) resulted immediately from an attempt
to "Save Link As ...", but with the introduction RSS' periodic polling, it can
pop up even when not actively using Thunderbird. The prompt is also
extraordinarily "insistent" since "Cancel" causes it to recur (2x?) for each RSS
feed!


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird behind a proxy server with proxy configured but not
authentication

2. Wait for RSS to query or force query by "Save Link As ..." in any existing
message

Actual Results:  
"anonymous" proxy authentication dialog

Expected Results:  
Dialog should be clearly labelled.

accessing internet through proxy server

proxy server is configured, but no authentication info is saved

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.