Closed Bug 75531 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

http authentication failure shows in browser as text

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(Core :: Networking, defect)

x86
Windows NT
defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: dxrobertson, Assigned: neeti)

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We have an http authentication here at work that requires you to login to use the internet. It expires every 30 minutes, and the browser pops up the http authentication window. Mozilla, for as long as I can remember, has had trouble with this. It either sometimes shows an authentication failure message as text within the browser window instead of poping up the authentication popup, or it pops it up ok, but shows the failure as text in the browser if you then login incorrectly. If the auth pops-up ok and you login correctly; then there are no problems. This seems to be cache related somehow also because once the auth failure incorrectly appears as text in the browser; if you hit the shift-reload button repeadidly very quickly, after about 5-10 trys; the auth popup will suddenly popup, you can then login, and all is once again corrected. I am not sure how this authentication is setup here, but I believe it has something to do with dns lookup because when I use hard-coded urls; the authentication never pops up and I can always access the internet. when, for example, accessing www.theonion.com; the message that incorrectly appears in the browser is: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=""XXX Internet. All use is monitored." (ID9144)" Connection: close Netscape properly pops up the authentication popup asking for the user name and password. The text that netscape displays on the popup is "Enter username for "XXX Internet. All use is monitored. at www.onion.com: I have never seen Netscape show a message like the one mozilla shows, not even if I attempt to login incorrectly, it shows- Authorization failed, retry?. Never seen the ID9144 or the connection: close in Netscape. In the above examples, I have replaced the company name here with XXX.
Reporter what build id are you using? Have you tried the latest nightlies and created a new profile? I believe this was fixed a while back but it may have regressed. Thanks in advance.
see screenprint attachment 31300 [details] above. This was taken on winnt build id 2001041704. I typed in google.com and got the html that is shown in the browser instead of the authentication popup (pretent that the authentication popup shown in the image isnt there yet- it did not appear until AFTER I cleared the cache). I then cleared the memory and disk cache and hit enter again. The authentication popup that is shown in the image now appears- this is when i took the screenprint. I login and all is ok until the next 30 minutes are up and the same thing happens again. I also tested on linux build id 2001041721 and the problem never happens- all is ok with linux.
mass move, v2. qa to me.
QA Contact: tever → benc
Can you (or anyone) provide a testcase of some sort for this? This is impossible to reproduce without one.
Somewhere along the way, this seems to have gotten fixed. I can no longer reproduce the problem. I have tested it on linux 0.9.1 and on windows build id 2001062504. If you want me to re-test on windows 0.9.1; add a comment and I will reload it and test.
Marking WORKSFORME as per reporters comments.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
reporter: This bug is a "futured" or "untargeted" bug which has been "resolved/works for me". Most bugs meeting this criteria are usually somewhat out of date or working in the current builds. If this bug is not happening for you in a recent build (such as the Mozilla daily build, Mozilla 0.9.3, or Netscape 6.1), please use the friendly "Mark bugs as VERIFIED" radio button to set this bug to "VERIFIED/WORKS FOR ME" If you reported the bug on a platform (e.g. Linux) and other contributors reported on another platform (e.g. Mac OS), please comment that it works for you but do not verify it yet. For these multi-platform bug reports, we need to verify all reported platforms -OR- create new "still broken on platform X" bugs when you verify.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Successfully tested on winnt with Netscape 6.1 and on linux with Mozilla 0.9.3. All seems to be OK.
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