Automatic proxy auth Topic is solved

[Veit Kannegieser]

Hello,

the company that i work for has changed the http proxy to protect the internet from its workers by windows passwords.

i managed to get the domain\user and the password pre filled for the authentication dialog.
Now i would like to avoid the dialog completely.

I found the relevant code in omi.jar, file components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js, function promptAuth:

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      if (foundLogins.length > 0) {
        selectedLogin = foundLogins[0];
        this._SetAuthInfo(aAuthInfo, selectedLogin.username,
                                     selectedLogin.password);

        // Allow automatic proxy login
        if (aAuthInfo.flags & Ci.nsIAuthInformation.AUTH_PROXY &&
            !(aAuthInfo.flags & Ci.nsIAuthInformation.PREVIOUS_FAILED) &&
            Services.prefs.getBoolPref("signon.autologin.proxy") &&
            !this._inPrivateBrowsing) {

          this.log("Autologin enabled, skipping auth prompt.");
          canAutologin = true;
        }

        checkbox.value = true;
      }
...      
    var ok = canAutologin;
    if (!ok) {
      if (this._chromeWindow)
        PromptUtils.fireDialogEvent(this._chromeWindow, "DOMWillOpenModalDialog", this._browser);    

the AUTH_PROXY and not PREVIOUS_FAILED condition are true,
preference signon.autologin.proxy is also set,
but _inPrivateBrowsing lets the condition fail.


Could the file changed please, so automatic proxy authentication works also in "do not record chronic" mode?
For people that want to get the dialog, they can set the signon.autologin.proxy preference to false.

[Moonchild]

It doesn't work in private browsing mode because private browsing should never automatically use personal credentials (which makes your browsing "not private" for any local observer).

[Veit Kannegieser]

Good consideration.
I have tried a proxy extension, which worked fine, but then removed it again, changed profile settings, and works nice now.

Thanks.