57291 - Mozilla incorrectly assumes Netscape Proxy authentication is for first website visited.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Scott Fredrickson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) [also Win98/WinME]
BuildID:    M18 (also, M17, M16...)
Related:    Buzilla #56773 (seems to be related, but on LINUX)


Mozilla does not seem to handle Netscape Proxy Server 3.x properly, the 
authentication is stored for the first site visited in the browser session. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open browser
2. Visit default site (requires proxy auth. that is now stored for the  site)
3. The next site visited will also require proxy authentication (to be stored 
with that sites login info too!)

Actual Results:                              

Expected Results:  Proxy server should only have to be authenticated once and 
each subsequent request should be handled by the browser.

I'm going to research this later and see if we are sending the proxy passwords 
on to the far-end (visited) web server... if the data is there, we;ve really 
gfot a huge mess.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

That's not single signon.  Probably networking because I think that's where 
authentication gets done (at least http and ftp authentication is there).

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Scott Fredrickson, are you still seeing this in current builds?

Comment 3

[timeless]

this is a dupe.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

*** Bug 59609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Scott Fredrickson]

This problem is still occurring with the first visit to any site not beginning 
with "http://www.".  (Tried with Build: 2000111604, WinNT4)

Comment 6

[Keyser Sose]

Marking as NEW as per users comments.

Comment 7

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 58817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Steve Chapel]

I have a very similar problem with Netscape Proxy Server 3.53 on SunOS 5.7

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set Mozilla as the default browser.
2. Close Mozilla.
3. Open "http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/6157/crazytaxi.html" by 
copying the URL to the Start | Run... dialog.

Expected Result:
Mozilla opens one window, asks for the proxy username and password once, and 
correctly displays the page.

Actual Result:
Mozilla opens two windows, asks for the proxy username and password over 100 
times, and doesn't display the page.

I've observed this behavior with at least the last several nightly builds, up 
to and including 2000112908. My platform is Windows 2000.

Comment 9

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 66534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

I have a friend who has seen this from linux computers running a Navaho proxy 
which is also running on linux (this is commercial and thus can't be 
distributed to anyone else). Is this enough to get the platform set to All?

This bug should really be upped to critical because he unable to use moz to 
browse a fair number of different sites.

his build: 2001-02-07-21 linux.

Comment 11

[Gagan]

 ->darin

Comment 12

[Anand Kumria]

Occurs with both Squid and Microsoft Proxy 2.0; perhaps #60588 contains more
details. I think this bug should definately be within #61691 though.

I'm using Moz 0.8.1 (2001032614) and see it with both Win32 and Linux versions.

However once I've authenticated the first time I can visit any pages I like
(even ones with different URLs). But when I next do "open URL in new window"
I'll get prompted for my proxy username and password again (with the wrong site
listed as the requesting one).

Comment 13

[Anand Kumria]

Bug 60588 fixes something similiar and now I only have to authenticate to it
once per session

Comment 14

[Darin Fisher]

if you only have to enter your username and password once per session, then i'd
say that this bug is fixed.

Comment 15

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 2002-10-29-08-trunk

Seems to be working fine for me on IPlanet Web Proxy 3.6  Please reopen bug if
this is still a problem.  Marking Verified!