498905 - a multi-frame window where each frame has the same basic auth asked the same question for each frame

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 475053

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[adam-bugzilla-1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11

When opening the page for the first time, it asks for the same auth for each frame.
If I enter it once, cancel the other questions, then reload the page, it's happy.

Shirley it should only ask once.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a frameset with at least two frames, where each frame has the same 'AuthType Basic'/AuthName/etc
2. load the page
3. get bored typing the same answers in
Actual Results:  
Each frame appears to require separate auth.

Cancelling the second and later requests, then reloading the page, succeeds: clearly the frames can obtain their auth from a central place, but during the initial load that doesn't happen.

Expected Results:  
The auth info is asked only once.


It used to work fine, it's just been the last few versions of firefox that have had this annoyance.