Using my own Win32 build from this morning, HTTP publishing with a username and password. If I try to publish to a site that returns a "Forbidden" error, the publishing status dialog claims it succeeded even thought it did not. No error message is displayed. But the Publish toolbar button remains active, which means some portion of Mozilla knows the publish failed. I saw this when publishing to http://peoplestage.netscape.com/mcs/index.html (a Netscape internal site). I am not sure why I get a Forbidden error, but Communicator 4.x does report it properly so that is not a Mozilla issue.

I was also able to reproduce this by trying to publish to someone else's peoplestage.netscape.com area, or even a non-existent area. Steps to reproduce: Step 1: Create a new publishing site with: Name: peoplestage foobar Publishing URL: http://peoplestage.netscape.com/foobar/ HTTP Address to browse to: <same> User name: <your-netscape-login> Step 2: Create a new document in Composer. Use "foobar" or anything as body text. Step 3: Select "Publish As..." from the File menu. Choose the "peoplestage foobar" site. Use a page title of "foobar" and a filename of index.html. Use defaults for everything else and hit "Publish". Type a valid username and password when prompted.

This is being addressed in recent fixes to status/error/progress system in bug 126258 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126258 ***

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