Closed Bug 701362 Opened 14 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Prompt for authentication being displayed on refresh

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Version:
8 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: thittesd0375, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 Build ID: 20111104165243 Steps to reproduce: The following code executes on child window close: <body onbeforeunload='javascript:opener.location.reload(true);'> Actual results: The parent window periodically asks for the login information. Sometimes multiple times for one refresh. The site is secured with NTLM authentication. Setting network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris prevents the dialog on Win 7 but doesn't on Win XP and OS X. Expected results: The page should refresh with the cached session.
Severity: normal → major
OS: Mac OS X → Windows XP
I can confirm this happening to our tools as well on Windows 7. Any ASP.Net MVC3 web apps using Windows Authentication will get the authentication prompt on FF8 but not in any other browsers (FF 7 also works fine for those that have not yet updated)
So just to be clear, this is a new problem that started occurring on upgrade to Firefox 8? If so, would you be able to help test nightly builds and try to determine a more precise regression range?
Component: Account Manager → General
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: account.manager → general
I would not be able to test at night, but I can squeeze in some test builds in the morning.
Sorry, by "test nightly builds" I meant "test the builds that we produce daily (at night)". They're available for download at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/ , and using binary search it should hopefully be not too hard to isolate the regression to a 1-day window of changes, which should help identify the root cause. The tricky part is knowing which range to start with. I can help with that if you can confirm that Firefox 7 works, but Firefox 8 doesn't.
I've tested the Mac versions of 7.0.1 and 8.0 b1-b6. The problem is not present on the 7.0.1 build but is present in all 6 beta builds for 8.0. I'll take some time tomorrow and go back further and see if I can't find a 8 build that works.
The only entry in that list that looks to have any relation would be bug 628561, which forces clearing persistent connections on reload.
Blocks: 628561
I kinda have a meh reaction to this one. ntlm authenticates the http connection and http connections can be closed at any time. That pref should certainly behave the same on all builds though. We should figure out the issue underneath that, but that's unlikely to be a regression.
The issue is still occurring on the 9.0.1 version released today.
This bug has been tagged for regression and or closure. It is working as expected in Release & Nightly Version 45.0.1 Build ID 20160315153207 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Version 48.0a1 Build ID 20160405030214 Considering this I will mark this issue as Resolved-WORKSFORME. If anyone can still reproduce it, feel free to reopen the issue and provide updated steps/links.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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