265609 - An incorrect NTLM password saved in Password Manager causes endless loop of failed auth

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261044

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Mike Stockman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041018
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041021 Firefox/1.0

If you inadvertently save an incorrect NTLM password, or your password changes
from what is saved in Firefox or Mozilla (trunk builds exhibit this lately too),
Firefox sits there trying to load the page forever without an error message. An
Ethereal capture of the connection shows failed authentication attempts over and
over and over...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to page that requires NTLM authentication
2. Enter correct domain\user (that's what I did, anyway)
3. Enter incorrect password.
4. Save the combination.

Actual Results:  
The status bar showed the page attempting to load over and over.

Expected Results:  
Put up the authentication dialog box again after displaying the error results.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Hmm. bug 261044 says bad NTLM passwords should have been fixed by the checkin
for bug 256949 which your 20041018 Seamonkey build might have missed, but your
20041021 Firefox build certainly shouldn't have missed. ccing Darin, but I don't
have anywhere to test to confirm.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261044 ***