298600 - Password management needs a way to clear failed authentication

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260186

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[James E. LaBarre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050620 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050620 Firefox/1.0.5

In this particular situation, I have passwords saved for various intranet sites.
 However, if I have recently changed the password, and click the OK button
thinking I have already changed the saved password (when I have not), I will get
an authentication error that the login has been entered wrong.  If I try to
re-login to the page, Firefox will attempt to use the already cached
user/password conbination, and I will get an authentication failure even though
I have not been prompted for the login.

The only way to clear this error is to close *ALL* browser windows, and then
restart the programme & try logging in again.  This is especially bad when I
have a number of tabs/windows open, and I have to lose my place in my work
merely to get past the authentication error.  Firefox needs a way to clear the
cached login in order to continue without closing.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(in details)

Actual Results:  
Cannot login to secured site without closing browser

Expected Results:  
Doing a forced refresh on the page should have brought up the login diagogue
again, where I could have re-entered the correct information.

Comment 1

[epte]

This may be related to bug #268216 

Comment 2

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

We should be able to log out of http auth sites in general, not just when the login info is bad.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260186 ***