890638 - network.auth.force-generic-ntlm set to true by default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Yunier J.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

Some users of Cuba have problems with it configuration and sometimes Firefox ask many passwords for surf on the web. In Cuba, many places use proxy servers for access to Internet

Please read it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747113

Comment 1

[Yunier J.]

When I change network.auth.force-generic-ntlm to true, the problem is partial solved.

Comment 2

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

I see a needinfo flag but I don't see a question.

Comment 3

[Yunier J.]

I need know if the proposal to set network.auth.force-generic-ntlm to true by default because nobody answer to me.

Comment 4

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

This is definitely a WONTFIX.  The preference here is just a fallback in case of problems.  We prefer use of the system APIs when possible to do the proper NTLM authentication.  Currently the "generic module" (I rather call it internal implementation) is completely disabled by default and will remain so until we have a good NTLMv2 capable alternative.