From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; WinNT4.0; en-US; m14) BuildID: 2000032808 Including the username:password pair as part of the URL works, e.g. http://12345:67890@www.burlco.lib.nj.us/authtest/, however if the username and password are URL encoded, e.g. http://%31%32%33%34%35:%36%37%38%39%30@www.burlco.lib.nj.us/authtest/ the pair are sent to the server verbatim, not decoded. It works as expected in IE5, which is an observation, not an endorsement. Perhaps IE5 is in violation of an RFC I can't find. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://%31%32%33%34%35:%36%37%38%39%30@www.burlco.lib.nj.us/authtest/ Actual Results: You're told the authentication failed Expected Results: The page should load, instead you're told the authentication failed

-> Networking.

trying again ->Networking

-> andreas

Easy fix, just unescape the PreHost.

fix checked in. This fix worked some days ago, and I'm still sure it works, but authentification seems to be broken in general, so this can't be tested unless authentification is restored.

authentification is restored, this can be verified now

VERIFIED: Mozilla 0.9 all plats. If someone has time, it might be worth checking to see if this works via http proxy.

verified now...