383774 - Camino always prompts me for httpAuth passwords stored in the Kyechain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[LH]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 Camino/1.5 (MultiLang)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 Camino/1.5 (MultiLang)

When I visit my personnal site wich is protected by .htaccess password, Camino always ask me to store my infos in the keychain.
I accepted the first time so that Camino shouldn't ask me for after, but every time, Camino ask me for save infos in the keychain (the checkbox is crossed of course). My infos are prefilled in the Camino dialog box. I have the entry in the keychain.
But what I expect is that Camino doesn't ask me for my infos in the future since they are stored in the Keychain. Safari does not ask everytime since I tell it one time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
what I expect is that Camino doesn't ask me for my infos in the future since they are stored in the Keychain

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

I thought this was a dupe, but I can't find it. This is either a WONTFIX, or
depends on the bug to add UI to see/remove entries from within Camino, because
otherwise it's very difficult to ever change your login information. I'd lean
slightly toward WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I'd also lean towards WONTFIX; Safari's behavior is rather problematic, and sticking UI in Camino to allow changing seems problematic.

Comment 3

[LH]

I'm not sure to have explained the right way the bug.
I wonder if it is Camino's normal behavior to always prompt user when accessing a protected page, even if the password is stored in Keychain and that Camino knows it, as it pre-fills the dialog box with the infos.
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The fact is that I always have to click on OK when I access a keychain password stored protected page, whereas in Safari, it is done in the background so that user doesn't mind about that, ecxept the first time.

I hope this is more clear now.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Yes, we understand the behavior. The problem with Safari's behavior is that if for whatever reason you ever need to log in with different account information it's very difficult to do so, because you never are given a prompt again.

Prompting once per session (and it should just be once per session, not at every single page load; if that's not what you are seeing, then that is a bug) is arguably better than making users go rooting around in the prefs to manually delete an entry if they ever change any login information.

Comment 5

[LH]

OK, 
You're right, it is one per session (but as i quit Camino every day, it is everyday...).
So it is not a bug but an assumed choice of Camino team.

Perhaps could i suggest that in Camino preferences, user could have the choice by 2 checkboxes : 

1 : use the Mac OSX keychain
2 : allow Camino to ask once per session to confirm infos

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This seems like enough of a fringe pref (how many users even hit httpauth passwords on a regular basis at all, much less several times per day?) that it's certainly not worth expending space in the GUI for it, and I don't think it's worth expending developer resources to write and maintain a per-session/once-ever toggle either.

I think the solution is not to quit Camino so often ;)

WORKSFORME since the behaviour is as-designed.