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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||||
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| 0002600 | NetSurf | [All Projects] General | public | 2018-05-14 11:45 | 2019-02-16 18:14 | ||||
| Reporter | Jim Nagel | ||||||||
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| Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always | ||||||
| Status | closed | Resolution | unable to reproduce | ||||||
| Platform | ArmX6, Armini | OS | RiscOS | OS Version | 5.23 | ||||
| Product Version | 3.8 | ||||||||
| Target Version | Fixed in Version | ||||||||
| Summary | 0002600: authentication dead-end for site asking password but no username | ||||||||
| Description | This site requires a password but does NOT ask for a username. The Netsurf authentication dialogue seems unable to cope with this and keeps repeating itself. By contrast, the Android or Firefox authentication dialogues duly ask for only the password. | ||||||||
| Additional Information | I obviously don't want to publish the password publicly, but if a developer has time to look into this, please email me and I'll tell you privately. Thanks. | ||||||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||||||
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| Reported in CI build # | 4316 | ||||||||
| URL of problem page | www.ben-simone.com | ||||||||
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Vincent Sanders (administrator) 2018-08-09 14:20 |
The domain to the website you specified does not resolve and you provided no log I cannot see how password without a username can be done with basic authentication so it is important to examine what the site is trying to do. |
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Vincent Sanders (administrator) 2018-08-19 13:11 |
From: Jim Nagel Have always thought, though, that it'd be nicer if Netsurf gave some message when a login is unsuccessful, rather than just repeat the identical dialogue, which the user can feel is an infinite loop. Some months ago I reported a site that asked for ONLY a password, WITHOUT a username. Netsurf failed but other browsers coped, giving a reduced dialogue box. (That site, for a wedding now past, now gives only an "under construction" page, but other examples might exist at www.squarespace.com where it was hosted.) |
Daniel Silverstone (administrator) 2019-02-16 18:14 |
Hi Jim, Unfortunately we cannot reproduce this and cannot determine any mechanism whereby a 401 login prompt might be induced which could not also involve a username. I wonder if this is JavaScript related instead, however we cannot find any site matching your description for us to try. If you find another, please reopen this bug. |
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| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2018-05-14 11:45 | Jim Nagel | New Issue | |
| 2018-07-20 15:18 | Michael Drake | Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2018-08-09 14:20 | Vincent Sanders | Note Added: 0001793 | |
| 2018-08-09 14:20 | Vincent Sanders | Status | acknowledged => feedback |
| 2018-08-09 14:20 | Vincent Sanders | Product Version | => 3.8 |
| 2018-08-19 13:11 | Vincent Sanders | Status | feedback => acknowledged |
| 2018-08-19 13:11 | Vincent Sanders | Note Added: 0001805 | |
| 2019-02-16 18:14 | Daniel Silverstone | Status | acknowledged => closed |
| 2019-02-16 18:14 | Daniel Silverstone | Resolution | open => unable to reproduce |
| 2019-02-16 18:14 | Daniel Silverstone | Note Added: 0001883 | |
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