285276 - Password manager does not remember proxy authentication

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Peter Zimmerer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

If I want to connect the internet I need a proxy authentication. I fill in my
username and my password and the check box to remember the account data. Whe I
start the browser the next time and the next use of an intern et connection all
the fields are empty. Within the password manager I can see the account and the
password too.  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peter Zimmerer]

The problem occurs in version 1.8b1 and in all 1.8a versions. It is working
properly in 1.7x.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Any chance of narrowing the regression window further using builds from
http://archive.mozilla.org/ ?

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

Peter: do you see this problem if you start with a clean profile?
mozilla -profilemanager

Comment 4

[Peter Zimmerer]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Peter: do you see this problem if you start with a clean profile?
> mozilla -profilemanager

I tried it with a new profile - it is still there. Next time I start Mozilla and
want to connect the internet the password managers window is empty. When I open
the password manager to manage stored passwords that the message our proxy
server sends is incomplete. It should be: proxy:81(--Nutzung nur für dienstliche
Zwecke !--)  [userid]
It is: proxy:81(--Nutzung
The rest isn't there. Maybe it will not stored correctly!?

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

This is an edge-case and might be annoying there but not it does not block
testing even there, so an early testing release like SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha doesn't
get blocked by it.
Additionally, we need further investigation to know what's happening there and I
see noone working on that right now.

Comment 6

[Peter Zimmerer]

Same problem with seamonkey 1.0a.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Peter,

SeaMonkey v1.0.x is not supported anymore.

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 8

[Peter Zimmerer]

I tried it now with SeaMonkey V1.1.9, the problem is still there.

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Could you test and answer comment 2 question ?
Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v2.0a1pre ?

Which proxy (software) are you using ?

Comment 10

[Bernard Duffy]

Able to reproduce the issue with an ISA 2005 proxy server.

Brower version: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Not only does the browser not remember the user/pass, but a hidden authentication box without a "save password" option appears under the browser window. It is only detectable by entering expose mode on Mac.

This makes FF unusable.

Comment 11

[boris.mironov]

I run Firefox 3.5.2 against proxy with password authentication. I like to save my tabs when close browser.

The problem manifest itself when I start the browser again. Each tab is requesting password authentication and even though I provide the data for 1st pop up, it keeps asking the same data over and over again for each consequent tab.

It is very frustrating experience, or "grain of salt" for great product.

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this still an issue ?