Using 2000-04-04-13m15 commercial build NT 4.0 Accessing secnews and opening one of the password protected groups, I'm asked for a user/password combination twice: once when downloading headers/opening group and again when selecting a message/downloading body. 1. Migrated a 4.x profile with "secnews" secure NNTP server configured and netscape.champions.beta subscribed. 2. Opened seamonkey to mail window, opened the secnews server hierarchy and selected newsgroup netscape.champions.beta. A set of user/password dialogs appeared for newsgroup authentication. I provided proper authentication combo. News message headers downloaded and appeared in thread pane. 3. I selected a message in the thread pane. Result: a second authentication dialog appeared. Should only ask once per session. Note: I thought I'd already submitted a bug about this awhile ago for authentication against non-secure servers, but I can't seem to locate it. So I apologize if this is a duplicate.

yeah, I've seen this too. probably has to do with the uri's I generate when talking to single signon. marking m16. not an m15 blocker. accepting.

Triage to M17. Please add beta2 keyword if this must make beta2. Please let me know if this must be done by M16 feature freeze.

Mail Review recommends beta2 stopper. Adding nsbeta2 keyword.

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Not critical to beta2.

Bug 32385 may be a dup. I'll let someone else mark it.

*** Bug 32385 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Adding mail4 triage nomination keyword.

Is this the same as 46118? - per mail triage

46118 was logged by Karen for a situation where she was prompted for authentication on reading each message. This one is less severe than that case. Being asked twice for authentication is bearable, being asked N times is not.

Sorry for the extra mail. Removing mail4 keyword.

clearing milestone, m17 and m18 are meaningless now. these need to be triages along with the rest.

isn't this a dup of 96896? how many votes does this news authentication bug need to get to be given any kind of priority?

During a typical newsreading session (with about 30 subscribed groups), I get asked for this prompt multiple times, despite the fact that I'm clearly already authenticated (if I back out and close the news server's foldout and reopen it, it rescans for new headers without prompting), and also despite the fact that I've marked it as a password to remember. It may be considered a low-severity bug, but it basically makes it impossible to read news on a server which requires authentication.

This appears to be a duplicate of bug 36816. Can we mark this as a duplicate?

As bug 34507 (this) came before bug 36816, I would mark bug 36816 as a dupe of this.

I've run into a related problem: I've got two DSL connections --- one primary and one backup. My primary is down with some line quality problems. The news server that I use authenticates based on IP address, but falls back to a login. Since I'm using the backup DSL (with a different ISP), I get prompted for a password about every 5-10 minutes *even though I'm not trying to read news*! And there doesn't seem to be a way to shut it off. *Extremely* annoying... I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36816 ***