[tor-bugs] #8335 [TorBrowserButton]: Torbutton 1.5 Causing Repeated HTTP Auth Prompts for Every Page

Sat Mar 2 05:29:54 UTC 2013

#8335: Torbutton 1.5 Causing Repeated HTTP Auth Prompts for Every Page
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 Reporter:  tas142                                        |          Owner:  mikeperry                    
     Type:  defect                                        |         Status:  new                          
 Priority:  major                                         |      Milestone:  TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable
Component:  TorBrowserButton                              |        Version:                               
 Keywords:  tbb-rebase-regression, tbb-usability-website  |         Parent:                               
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Heh. This turns out to be due to favicons. We strip the auth off of them
 because technically the browser chrome UI (not the website) is loading
 them. This might be a little tricky to fix in the general case, but I
 think I should be able to special case just favicons for HTTP auth without
 too much trouble.

 For now, as a workaround you can go into about:config and set
 browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.site_icons to false.

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