[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 118849] [Curl] Http response code 401 (Authentication required) is not handled.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118849





--- Comment #6 from Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at webkit.org>  2013-07-19 10:30:03 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > Source/WebCore/platform/network/curl/ResourceHandleManager.cpp:823
> > +            // <rdar://problem/7174050> - For URLs that match the paths of those previously challenged for HTTP Basic authentication, 
> > +            // try and reuse the credential preemptively, as allowed by RFC 2617.
> 
> I don't know if we should keep this rdar url as we don't have a way to access it.

Please leave the rdar tag in place.  This is a reminder why we added this code on the CFNetwork side, and I imagine it would be good to have on the cURL side as well.  The bug had to do with authentication on certain wireless routers that failed if this case was not handled properly.

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