47293 - Authorization does not work properly

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Jens]

If you have an account for the above site and enter the correct 
user name and password, mozilla goes into looping.
This is what happens:

1.mozilla calls this URL WITHOUT Authorization: header 
(netscape uses Athorization header here)

2.mozilla gets a redirect 301 to login.html

3.mozilla fetches login.html and gets 401 Unauthorized

4.mozilla fetches login.html again and provides the 
"Authorization:" header

5.mozilla get a redirect 301 to the original URL 

6.mozilla fetches the original URL from the redirect, but again 
without the authorization !

7. back to 2.

(Hummm...I guess this bug will never be resolved because the 
readers will loop also)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

qawanted: Anyone have the tools to reproduce this, or the knowledge to know who 
is doing what wrong?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Jens]

If someone wants to test this, I can create an account for that 
site. (anybody can do this)

Comment 3

[Tom Everingham]

Jens, a test account would be nice.  I cannot read German but I might be able to 
interpret the http.

Comment 4

[Jens]

User = xmoz, password = xmoz, so th url is:
http://xmoz:[e-mail]/de/my/homepage/main.htm
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Comment 5

[Tom Everingham]

thanks for the help Jens, changing status to NEW

not sending "Authorization: Basic" header after a "301 Moved Permanently" as 
initially described.   marking nsbeta3

Comment 6

[Gagan]

minus

Comment 7

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 52583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Keyser Sose]

Adding comments from similar bug:

You can't login to account. If you have a website using Namedemo and you want to
login to your account, you would have to type your username, password, and
domain name. It says: You have entered an unknown domain. Please re-enter your
information. So then I tested it using IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.75 and it works
fine.

Build ID: 2000100708.

Comment 9

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 55707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Jens]

Seems to work now with M18 from November.

Comment 11

[Stephan Niemz]

Based on Jens' last comment I tried it out, and it works for me, too.
(Build 2000123120 on Win NT4). Marking worksforme.

Comment 12

[Tom Everingham]

verified wfm