299634 - Firefox asks for logged in user's credentials multiple times when logging on to a Microsoft SharePoint Server

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Tanner]

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

When logging on to a local intranet site that is located on a Microsoft
SharePoint server, Firefox asks for login details to the server twice (the first
time, it says: give username and password for http://infonet [the server's
address on the intranet]; the second time, it says: give username and password
for 192.19.4.17 [the proxy server on the intranet that is physically connected
to the Internet]). In each case, entering the user name and password of the user
already logged into the intranet via Windows Networking will allow the server to
be accessed and go to its home page, so these prompts don't seem to be
necessary. Also, it is interesting to note that clicking 'cancel' when presented
with the user name/password requests makes Firefox load an error page that
states access is denied. Another interesting point is that when loading the site
in IE, there are no unnecessary user/password requests and the home page of the
site loads immediately. I suspect this is due to the locking in of one MS
product to another (SharePoint to IE).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
In Firefox, browse to a site on a local network that is on a Microsoft
SharePoint server and you have sufficient permissions to access.

Actual Results:  
(see details above)


Expected Results:  
(see details above)

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Does setting the preferences described in 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/integrated-auth.html and 
http://www.kerio.com/manual/kwf/en/ch21s02.html help?

e.g. 
 network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies
 network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

Comment 2

[Alex Tanner]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does setting the preferences described in 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/integrated-auth.html and 
> http://www.kerio.com/manual/kwf/en/ch21s02.html help?
> 
> e.g. 
>  network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies
>  network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

I have tried setting the preferences as described on the above sites, but I
still get the password requests.

Comment 3

[Alex Tanner]

This bug seems to be fixed in Firefox 1.0.5 (or have the administrators at
http://infonet locked me out? - now it just asks for a password at
http://infonet and denies access to the site).

Comment 4

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Reopen to resolve WFM as per comment 3

Fix is only used when code changes were made to cause the fix.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no patch = not fixed

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

arg, I suck :-)
I read my bugmail, opened the bug to correct the mistake but didn't see that
somone else did that already...

Comment 8

[Alex Tanner]

The most interesting thing about the password prompts is that they say

Enter user name and password for "" at <SharePoint server>.

What is ""? Proxy? Caffeinated drink? Bill Gates?