892850 - Proxy authentication credentials forgotten in timeout

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Networking: Proxy, defect, P5)

Description

[eagmunoz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

The environment at office is comprised of firefox browsers (among ie and crhome), squid proxy, windows and linux os.
 - The proxy uses NTLM authentication and Kerberos authentication. Haven't test BASIC authentication, probably will give same results.
- Setting firefox to use the proxy and authenticating with either of the types NTLM or Kerberos. This has been reproduced in windows and linux clients.
- Test access with a HTTPS website which should be unavailable.Reproduction in mind, one can use an iptables entry to drop packets coming to the proxy from the server in question.


Actual results:

After aproximately 60 seconds the browser prompts for the user credentials (and remember we are using NTLM on windows or kerberos on windows or linux). 
Basically the browser forget about the credentials completely. 


Expected results:

The browser should have reported the problem accessing the page, and continue working without prompting for credentials.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Moving bug to Core/Networking: Proxy.