299123 - Sun Java VM 1.5.0P2 prompts for proxy auth even though browser already has details

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135840

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Pattison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The company I work for uses HTTP 1.1 authentication to allow access to the web.
You type in a username and password, and away you go. When a Java applet opened
on a page within Firefox needs access to data out on the internet, I receive a
seperate proxy authentication prompt from Java, even though I've already given
the browser my details. This does not occur in Internet Explorer - the browser
must pass the proxy auth details to Java.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N.B. This bug only relates to proxy auth via HTTP 1.1 basic. No other method has
been tried, but in theory this affects other auth methods too.

1. Make sure Firefox isn't running. 
2. Start a fresh instance of Firefox.
3. Type in the address of a web site. The browser prompts for proxy auth details
(username and password).
4. Type in username and password and press <enter>.
5. Find another page with a Java applet on it. The Java applet must itself
require data from off the web. (Example:
http://camvista.com/scotland/edinburgh/capcity.php3)

Actual Results:  
Java prompts for proxy auth.

Expected Results:  
Java should not be prompting seperately for proxy auth, rather the browser
should pass the required details to it just like Internet Explorer.

Not sure if this is a "bug" so much as a limitation of the plugin architecture.
Does the Netscape plugin API allow proxy authentication details to be passed to
plugins?

Comment 1

[Andrew]

That is something you should tell Sun about.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 135840 via bug 136856 and bug 142526

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135840 ***