341617 - Firefox does not automatically supply credentials from a URL again, after connection times out

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

I have a server that I connect to which requires credentials to log in.  It times out after so many minutes so you have to supply the credentials again.

I have bookmarked, for example: http://username:password@192.168.0.1/index.html

This works.

However, once the connection has timed out to the server and I attempt to load it up again from the bookmark - it pops up with a message box asking for the credentials.

I have to restart Firefox to make the bookmark supply the credentials automatically again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a site which requires credentials, eg. http://username:password@hostname
2. Bookmark the above URL
3. Access the above bookmark
4. Let the connection time out (in my example my router times out after 5 minutes)
5. Attempt accessing the above bookmark

Actual Results:  
It pops up with a message box asking for username and password, even though they are supplied in the URL.

Expected Results:  
It should simply pass the credentials in the URL to the server again, but it doesn't.

Maybe a trivial bug to some, but this is plain annoying for me, as I access my router on a regular basis checking up on my **** MaxADSL connection.

It is not an issue with my router as the URL works perfectly the first time and works again once Firefox has been restarted.

Comment 1

[Kez]

I have tried typing the URL directly into the address bar, it results in the same outcome.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Closing as incomplete -> no reply

Reporter: if you still see this Problem in a recent Firefox 3 Release or 3.1alpha, feel free to reopen this bug. 

A testcase/url would be very helpful in this case.