885368 - Add-on SDK hook for HTTP authentication dialog

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Sean Coates]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

I had a conversation on Twitter with Jeff Griffiths and @1Password about why the add-on can't remember HTTP passwords anymore.

According to this conversation ( https://twitter.com/canuckistani/status/347732186503446530 ), the reason 1Password can't attach to the HTTP dialog is that an add-on/extension SDK hook does not exist for this.

Adding a hook to allow add-on developers to attach to the HTTP authentication dialog would greatly improve user experience for those using password managers.


Actual results:

1Password says they don't have the appropriate hooks to attach to HTTP authentication.


Expected results:

1Password (and other password managers) should be able to hook into the HTTP dialog so the extensions/add-ons can remember all of my passwords, not just some of them.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562