483750 - Password manager for site with & without "www"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249115

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Karthik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7

I login to irctc.co.in site either as "http://irctc.co.in" or "http://www.irctc.co.in". Is it possible to make the password manager use/prompt the same password for both the sites rather than manually duplicating the entry for with and without "www".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Save password to site "http://irctc.co.in" in the passwd manager
2. Login to site "http://www.irctc.co.in"
3. Password manager doesnt prompt for password
Actual Results:  
Password manager doesnt prompt for password

Expected Results:  
Password manager prompts the password stored for "http://irctc.co.in"

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Unfortunately, www.site.com and site.com have to be treated as separate authentication domains.

The solution here is to either use server redirects (so a user going to site.com ends up at www.site.com, or vice versa), or to support wildcarding in the browser so that a user can let it know that separate domains should be treated equivalently. Which is what bug 249115 is about.