442141 - Password manager doesn't remember empty password

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 399703

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Nick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0

When accessing a site with an HTTP 401 style password protection (appears in pop-up window), Firefox 3 doesn't remember the login if the password is empty.  The password manager offers to remember the password, but does nothing when clicking the "Remember" button, and the dialog bar doesn't retract unless "Not Now" or "Never for This Site" is selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into a web site that is protected by HTTP 401 style username/password login, for which the correct password is an empty string.
2. When the password manager's dialog bar appears, select "Remember"

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens when selecting "Remember" button, and dialog bar doesn't retract.

Expected Results:  
Password manager should remember username and empty password, then dialog bar should retract, as it does in Firefox 2.

If remembering an empty password is considered bad form, the password manager should not offer to remember it at all.

Comment 1

[Hasham]

Can you provide a URL with that type of password protection? I used http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/wallet/login.html and it wouldn't even offer to remember the password when the password was an empty string.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0