438345 - Firefox endless ask for authentication when behind squid proxy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230190

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Paolo Marani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

I don't know if this is a bug of squid proxy installed on our corporate server (unknown version) or is a FF bug, anyway IE6 does not experience this and cache credentials just fine.
In an unpredictable way, when loading a web page the proxy/auth popup a dozen of times, asking for username/password credentials, and this popup return endlessly for every image contained in the page irregardles if the "remember" checkbox is set. The popup comes back just empty and user must retype user/password for tens of time. After restarting FF the problem is still there, but logging off from windows and performing login again this seem to cure the issue for a while (the squid proxy auth popup but already filled with credentials)

This is frustrating me so much.

This problem should be resolved this way:

1- Always restoring cached credentials when user flag the "remember" checkbox

2- Adding a preference to store username/password pair into proxy configuration FF panel and sending those credentials at a first attempt without even popup the auth request. If the authentication failed the user can be noticed raising the popup anyway.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Stay behind a Squid Proxy
2. Load a page having many resources, like google portal with panels
3. For each panel loaded the auth popup appear empty and "remember" flag is not honoured
Actual Results:  
User must enter the same credentials hundred of times

Expected Results:  
Just ask credential once and cache the result without opening the auth popup

Tested on latest FF 2.0.0.14

Comment 1

[Paolo Marani]

typo

Comment 3

[Paolo Marani]

I don't think this is a dupe!
The final result (endless proxy auth request) is the same, but the reason is not the intermixing of proxy and non-proxy connection in my case. I doubt that www.google.it can load fragments from our intranet (that is excluded from proxy as well). This have something to do with password manager that do not always cache credential and prompt several times due to some strange handshake with squid proxy, that does not like my IP. Rebooting the machine (thus changing the IP due to DHCP) will usually cure it for a while, but after few hours it restart such nasty behaviour. IE7 does not expose this and always fill the auth popup with last cached data. Can you elaborate this is really a dupe ? Maybe they are dependant but not dupe.

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Yes, it is a dupe. There are a variety of ways for the underlying bug(s) to manifest itself, but the end result is that you get prompted way more than one would expect.