385239 - Clicking 'Cancel' on HTTP AUTH popup should prevent new HTTP AUTH dialogs from popping up on that page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Kevin B]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Imagine a page with 1000 images that require HTTP AUTH.  Right now, if you click 'Cancel' for the first one, it will still popup the dialog another 999 times.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a webpage with lots of images behind an HTTP auth
2. Get the auth wrong or click cancel
3. Get **** about having to keep clicking cancel.
Actual Results:  
Lots of popups.

Expected Results:  
Popups stop.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122604 Minefield/3.0b3pre ID:2007122604

This happens if you have specified an error document with a lot of referenced images. If you cancel the http auth prompt you get redirected to that page and have to click through all the prompts - one for each image.

It can easily reproduced by putting a .htaccess file into the root of a (sub)domain. The error page should be located under this folder which is normal. Try to access the domain and cancel the http auth prompt.

As example you can use http://devel.hskupin.info/.

We shouldn't ask for a password after an unsuccessful/canceled login.

Comment 2

[Kevin Gainer]

I had something similar happen to me due to a glitch at pajamasmedia.com during their format change.  Viewing their page popped up a password dialog box that just would not go away and as a result there was no way to leave that page or even exit Firefox without resorting to Task Manager.

Comment 3

[Søren]

I get similar error when I try to view a page which includes multiple images that resides in a folder which is protected by http auth.

I receive one master password login prompt for every protected image, eventually resulting in max CPU-load and browser death.

This wasn't the case with version 2.x of the Firefox browser.

I am really looking forward to a fix.

Comment 4

[Søren]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I receive one master password login prompt for every protected image,
> eventually resulting in max CPU-load and browser death.

I think mine was a dup. of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356097