thanks for the bug report... please see bug 84794.
darin
Indraneel Sarkar wrote:
>There seems to be a problem with WWW-Authenticate: Basic and cookies.
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>Problem: I have a URL that requires "Basic" authentication. When the
>server responds with a 401 (Auth-required), it also sends a
>"Set-Cookie:" in the header. Now, this cookie is being set by Mozilla
>(build 2001060509); looked up in the "cookie manager". However, when
>the browser sends back the "Authorization" response, the cookie is
>not being sent back to the server. Why is the cookie not being sent back
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>to the originating server? Netscape 4.7x and IE 5.x both work fine.
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>Thanks,
>-Indraneel
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