583140 - Show a "network connection error" when not authenticated yet to Captive Portal network

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Firefox Home, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

When trying to log into FF Home, and knowing you have not authenticated a connection to a captive portal network, the error message displays:

"Login Failure.  username not found"

I think this message should be corrected instead to something along the line of "network connection error, need authentication" or something like that instead.  This will send a better message on the error.

Repro:
1) install FF Home 1.0.2b1
2) point wifi to a captive portal network (eg. Mozilla guest)
3) verify wifi connected to portal, but do not authenticate the captive portal
4) launch FF Home, and attempt to login with a valid account
5) Verify error message says "Login Failure.  username not found"

Expected;
- error message something better that explains captive portal not authenticated or something instead.

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

dan, you should probably add yourself to watch qa contact: [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

Also, let's track commits on bugs that fix issues.

Comment 3

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Apple introduced something in iOS 3.0 to deal with this. I think they can actually detect the captive portal and then show a modal dialog with a browser to give you a change to login. I've seen this happening automatically in third party apps.

Comment 5

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Brian I don't think this can depend on 562917. We don't use that code in Firefox Home.

Comment 6

[Nicolas Mailhot]

I believe the ietf has defined
HTTP error 511 Network Authentication Required
for this case in its latest drafts

(see bug #728658)

Comment 7

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

The Firefox Home project has been retired, and Mozilla will no longer invest in future work on this project [1]. All bugs related to Firefox Home are being mass resolved.

For those interested in continuing work on this app, the source code for Firefox Home is available on Github [2].

[1] http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefox-home/
[2] https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client