267205 - Unable to add authenticated feed twice with different username/password

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Mark Derricutt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041028 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041028 Firefox/1.0RC1

Currently the username and password for a feed is not stored with its
subscription.  I'm currently adding RSS support to several of my applications
with use a single URL for the feed, which is generated dynamically based on the
username/password provided.  Thunderbird silently adds the 2nd subscriptoin and
re-uses the authentication credentials of the first.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a feed using HTTP Basic Auth
2. Enter username/password
3. Add the same feed again with the intention of entering different credentials


Actual Results:  
The 2nd feed was downloaded using the credentials entered for the first feed.

Expected Results:  
User should have been prompted for credentials for the additional feed.

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.