269614 - Show SSL status in the username/password prompt

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: GTK Widget, enhancement)

Description

[Tommi Komulainen]

Forwarded from Galeon bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157996

Could we please have a padlock on the usename/password prompt that pops up when
we enter a page with WWW-Authentication?

It would be nice to know wheter username and password travels over a secured
SSL-line or not.

This can not be determined from the padlock in the status bar since we could be
following a link from a not-secure to a secure site or the other way. Or we
could be travelling from one SSL-site to another where one site has a broken
certificate.

Comment 1

[Tommi Komulainen]

According to HIG the dialog should have a padlock icon already, but it's not
meant to indicate the security status.  A different icon might work, but it
could also be too subtle.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html#alerts-authentication

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

essentially a duplicate of bug 115500, I think. needs a new nsIAuthPrompt
interface (bug 265780)

(In reply to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157996#c1)
> The dialog is handled entirely by mozilla

hmm, looks like it is indeed handled by gtkmozembed. so, not marking duplicate,
but just a dependency

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Embedding: GTK Widget isn't a thing, closing.