567245 - Multiple login dialogs for multiple resources needing HTTP Auth

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 567247

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Martin Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.397.0 Safari/533.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3

If a user visits an unprotected page which has resources (CSS, haven't tested img or js) which are protected by HTTP Auth, the user gets multiple login prompts - one for each protected resource referenced by the HTML, even if all of the CSS is in the same folder and has the same login credentials.

This results in the user seeing the page partly load, then get repeated login dialogs much like when they enter incorrect login details and most give up assuming that they got the wrong password

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a web page on an unprotected domain that calls 4 CSS stylesheets on another domain protected by HTTP Auth
2. Make sure you haven't previously logged into the latter domain in the current browser session
3. Visit web page
Actual Results:  
Four Login boxes appear, one after the other

Expected Results:  
User is prompted for login details only once