[Bug 222208] [NEW] password protected rss feed on https gives problems

[Rolf Leggewie]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

This is a bug I have seen for quite some time.  I am in the "make hardy
the best release there ever was"-mood today and have brought myself to
really reporting every single bit of problem I have put off for so long
so somebody with the needed skills has a chance to fix it.

I subscribe to an RSS feed hosted on a password-protected https-site in
Thunderbird.  TB works fine but periodically asks me for the password
although I have marked "save password with password manager" in the
dialog.  In fact, the necessary fields are displayed filled in, but the
pop-up comes back to me from time to time and I have to hit the OK
button.

I have set up a test installation which is exactly the same as the one I
am having problems with at https://clients.leggewie.biz/tester/.  The
ssl-certificate is from cacert.org, so your browser might throw that up
at first.  The user you need to get in is tb-tester and the password is
launchpad.  The RSS feed is at
https://clients.leggewie.biz/tester/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
When you susbscribe to that in TB and save the login credentials, you
should have TB nagging you from time to time to with a login screen.

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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password protected rss feed on https gives problems
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