[XHR] Failed authentication user interaction from Alexey Proskuryakov on 2007-07-12 (public-webapi@w3.org from July 2007)

From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:28:11 +0400
To: <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <C2BBEAFB.39F66%ap-carbon@rambler.ru>

  The draft spec currently says:

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If authentication fails, user agents should prompt the users for
credentials.
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  This doesn't say what happens if user-provided credentials are also
incorrect, but I would read this text as a requirement to ask again.
However, Firefox and IE only ask the user once, and handle the request as
success with response status 401 if that fails.

  Would it make sense to describe Firefox/IE behavior in the spec in this
case?

  WebKit bug: <http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13075>.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov

Received on Thursday, 12 July 2007 10:28:49 UTC