The browser does not seem to remember the authorization, when going to other directories (higher or lower) on the same site. All other browsers ask the userid and password only once per site/realm, not once per directory!

This should have been fixed long ago. mancuso@rimes.com which version of Mozilla are you using? Reassign to gagan.

Found similar problem on MacOS 8.5 Mozilla M13 Release. In this instance, both moving through subdirectories and across identically-named realms on the same server both created un/pw prompt. Secondarily, hitting "cancel" caused the browser to all but stop working. No other URIs could be requested or displayed.

I can confirm that this problem occurs on both the mac M13 and ppc-linux-gnu M13 releases of Mozilla. Any file within the realm at all, including images embedded in an already authenticated HTML page cause the authentication dialog to pop up. Surely this qualifies as a platform=all bug?

Gagan: Do you think this needs to be fixed for beta?

yes...

I have Win NT 4 and M14 and operating inside a company firewall all requests external to company go via a proxy server which requires authentication... Whenever I access a site that goes via the proxy server a username password dialog appears for every request. When accessing pages with multiple objects (pictures etc...) the dialog will appear multiple times for a single page. With other browsers I will only see a dialog for the proxy once per session. Username and password are remembered between sessions if desired in which case the dialog pops up with the username and password pre-entered for a new session. In some cases the username and password are remembered (Save these values seems to work). This appears to be the case only when I return to a page. ie. The username and password remembered appears to be linked to the combination of proxy server _and_ resource being accessed.

fix checked in on Friday.

*** Bug 35753 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Tried this with netscape 6 2000042611. Problem still exists. See bug 35753 for details how to reproduce. Call me for login information if necessary.

we are missing the realm based authentication. this is a dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32335 ***

Demian Turner, iii.co.uk, added to cc-list

verified DUP 32335

David Allardice, iii.co.uk added to cc-list. This is affecting iii Stocktracker. Demian Turner removed.