377786 - Do not prompt if I really want to use HTTP authentication for URLs like http://[e-mail] when using bookmarks or the location bar

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Martin F.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Please do not prompt the user if he really wants to use HTTP authentication if he typed the URL including the user/password into the location bar or used a bookmark which includes the login data. It is very likely that he did it intentional.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. a) Type a URL like http://[e-mail] into the location bar and press Return
1. b) Use such a URL in a bookmark
Actual Results:  
An annoying prompt appears

Expected Results:  
Just follow the orders

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I wonder if LOAD_INITIAL_DOCUMENT_URI is an appropriate flag to use to determine whether we should show the prompt.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I guess that probably doesn't let us differentiate external loads and link clicks? What we really would need is a "this load was triggered by chrome" flag, since I think that's the best way we have of determining whether a load was a user-aware action.

Comment 3

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Perhaps more generically a "user-initiated" flag?  Not sure whether genericity is the best idea here, but just throwing it out as another idea...

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Well, I think we want something slightly different than just "user initiated", since link clicks fall into that category, and I think we still want to be prompting for those.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258