Use the mentioned URL. The server will ask for username and password. 1. Try some random garbage password. This will fail silently, nothing happens. I expect an error page, netscape 4.7 gives me that. The error page basically tells that authentication failed. 2. Try the correct password (available on request, I DON'T put it in a public bug report) This also fail silently, nothing happens. I expect the page to load. Again, netscape 4.7 has no problems. IE is fine too.

*** Bug 54333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 54334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is a dupe of 53182 (which I encourage you to vote for). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53182 ***

Changing component to Networking.

This is a dup of bug 53182: login via basic auth does not work