290820 - Password manager does not fill in stored password when login dialog has no username field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 235336

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Haakon Riiser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

The well known P2P file sharing client eMule (http://www.emule-project.net/)
can be remote controlled by a web interface.  Logins must be
authorized using a password, but there is no username field.
The first time I log in, Firefox asks me if I want it to remember
the password, to which I answer "Yes".  I can verify that the
password is stored in the password manager, but the username
column contains "<>", which I assume indicates an empty string.

Everything looks good so far, but the next time I log in, Firefox
does _not_ fill in the password automatically.  (It knows not to
ask if I want it remember the password a second time, though.)

The HTML code for the login dialog will be included in an
attachment.

This bug has been verified on the following systems:

Slackware Linux 10.1
  Firefox 1.0.2
  Mozilla 1.8a6

Windows XP SP2
  Firefox 1.0.2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install eMule on Windows, and enable the web interface
2. Direct Firefox to eMule's web interface <http://EMULE-SERVER:WEBADM-PORT>
3. Log in, and observe that Firefox will remember the password
4. Log out, and try to log in a second time.
Actual Results:  
The login dialog is shown, but the password is not automatically filled in.

Expected Results:  
Obviously, the password should be filled in since it _is_ stored in the password
manager.

Comment 1

[Haakon Riiser]

Attachment: eMule login dialog

This attachment can probably not be used to reproduce the bug by itself,
but it might give some insight into what causes the problem.

Comment 2

[Daniel Bonniot]

I also experience this bug, with Firefox 1.0.3 on Linux. It happens for instance
on this URL: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/admin/nice-info/login

Comment 3

[Haakon Riiser]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Still broken.

Comment 4

[victor]

 
I have the same problem using a Mac with Tiger OSX 10.4.2 This problem started
after updating to the latest 1.0.6 Firefox version. After that, Firefox cannot
longer remember any password. Everytime a login dialog box is shown, asks if I
want to remember the information as usual, but when login back, the password is
not automatically filled in. Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Obviously, the password should be filled in since it _is_ stored in the password
manager.

Comment 5

[Dav4is]

Another instance, with New York Public Library page: http://www.nypl.org/databases/

See details for reproducing, here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2175561#2175561

-R.

Comment 6

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235336 ***