Bug 446233 - Galeon does not support basic authentication
Summary: Galeon does not support basic authentication
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: galeon
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Denis Leroy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-13 16:49 UTC by Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
Modified: 2008-10-07 09:49 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-07 09:49:46 UTC
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2008-05-13 16:49:52 UTC
Description of problem:
Galeon in F9 has probably been compiled without HTTP basic authentication
support. It displays the 401 page without asking user for login name and password.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
galeon-2.0.5-1.fc9 (tried i386 and x86_64)

How reproducible:
100 %

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "galeon https://is.muni.cz/auth/" (or any other site which uses the basic
authentication)

  
Actual results:
The 401 error page is displayed

Expected results:
The dialog window with the realm name, and login+password input boxes should
be displayed.

Additional info:
Apparently firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 works as expected.

Comment 1 Peter Hanecak 2008-05-30 14:34:34 UTC
I've got galeon-2.0.5-1.fc9.x86_64 too and I see same behaviour.

Quite nasty after using galeon for so many years. :/

Comment 2 Stu Tomlinson 2008-05-30 15:13:45 UTC
It seems this is known, from /usr/share/doc/galeon-2.0.5/NEWS:

2.0.5 "1 step forward, 2 steps back"

- Works with Firefox 1.5.x and xulrunner 1.8.x
- Compiles with xulrunner 1.9, but a lot of functionality is disabled due
  to being no longer exposed by xulrunner (or not working)
  - MyPortal
  - User stylesheets
  - Remembering passwords
  - http authentication

Would have been nice to see this mentioned in the release notes.

Comment 3 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2008-05-30 15:28:31 UTC
As a quick band-aid fix, downgrade to the Fedora 8 version of Galeon worked for me.

Remove xulrunner, yelp, firefox, epiphany, galeon (and maybe other dependencies),
and install galeon and firefox from Fedora 8 updates.


Comment 4 Jonathan Wakely 2008-07-06 12:26:25 UTC
Well this sucks.


Comment 5 Jan ONDREJ 2008-07-06 19:32:06 UTC
Galeon 2.0.6 has been released. I don't know, if this problem has been fixed,
but may be some yes.


Comment 6 Denis Leroy 2008-07-08 08:04:23 UTC
I have a 2.0.6 src rpm ready, after much configure.in hackage as usual. I'll put
this up here for testing before I submit it, simply because I can't really see
any significant improvement. Let me know what you guys think.

http://www.poolshark.org/src/galeon-2.0.6-1.fc9.src.rpm


Comment 7 Jan ONDREJ 2008-07-08 14:31:25 UTC
Still same problems. :-(

Just a tip for those who want to use http auth with this galeon. You can use
this URL:
  http://login:password@hostname/...
It works, but your password is displayed in URL. If your password is not very
secret, then it's a way. :-)

Comment 8 Jan ONDREJ 2008-07-10 13:16:12 UTC
Just for your information:
  flash and other plugins are not loaded with your package of galeon-2.0.6,
older versions are without problems. It is still trying to redirect me to flash
installation site.

Comment 9 Jan ONDREJ 2008-09-27 07:37:10 UTC
Upstream released new version:

2.0.7 "Surprise!"

- Works with Firefox 2/3 and Xulrunner 1.8/1.9
  - Restored support for http authentication by Mike Hommey <mh>
  - Restored support for remembering passwords.
  - Partially restored support for user stylesheets.
    - Effect is global rather than per page but UI doesn't reflect this.

May be printing will still not work.

Comment 11 Jan ONDREJ 2008-09-27 14:23:39 UTC
Thank you!

Authentication works for me.

There are still problems with:
- printing
- it's hard to add exception for unknown https sites

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-09-27 17:23:48 UTC
galeon-2.0.7-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/galeon-2.0.7-1.fc9

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-10-01 06:38:59 UTC
galeon-2.0.7-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update galeon'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8478

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2008-10-07 09:49:35 UTC
galeon-2.0.7-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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