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On 2015-09-30T13:19:00+00:00 Trogel-3 wrote:

If an HTTP server responds with the "401 Unauthorized" status code and
requests SPNEGO authentication with the response-header line "WWW-
Authenticate: Negotiate", but kio_http fails to respond to the
challenge, Konqueror shows a built-in error page saying "Authorization
failed". Instead I'd expect to see the entity body of the server's 401
response.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Konqueror (or rekonq).
2. Enter the URL of a server that responds with the status code "401 
Unauthorized" and the header "WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate", where kio cannot 
respond to the challenge.

Actual Results:  
The browser shows a built-in error page saying "Authorization failed".

Expected Results:  
The browser should show show the entity body of the server's 401 response.

The server I'm requesting actually sends an HTML page with a login form,
but also allows for SPNEGO authentication (RFC 4559). Therefore it sends
the login page with the "401 Unauthorized" status code and the response-
header line "WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate". If the client can respond
with appropriate authentication data, it will retry the HTTP request
with an "Authorization" header. But if it cannot, it should show the
entity body of the server's 401 response to the user so that he can log
in manually. (I might be wrong, but this is my understanding of RFC
2616, section 10.4, "Client Error 4xx", where it says "User agents
SHOULD display any included entity to the user." And that is what at
least Firefox and probably other browsers currently do.)

However, if kio_http cannot respond to the server's SPNEGO request, it
displays a built-in error page. So, Konqueror does not show the server's
login form and the user cannot log in manually.

Reproduced on
- kubuntu trusty (14.04) with kdelibs5-plugins 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.1,
- kubuntu utopic (14.10) with kdelibs5-plugins 4:4.14.1-0ubuntu1, and
- xubuntu vivid (15.04) with kdelibs5-plugins 4:4.14.6-4~ubuntu3.1.

It took me a while to understand how this works, but now the fix appears
to be quite simple. In certain places where kio_http detects an error,
it calls sendErrorPageNotification() to check whether it should show the
HTTP body of the server's response or a built-in error page. But this
check does not happen when the last attempt to generate an
"Authorization" response to the server's authentication request failed.
Therefore it always shows the built-in error page in such cases.

As a patch to the Ubuntu source package kde4libs-4.14.6 I added such
check to kioslave/http/http.cpp and installed the modified package
kdelibs5-plugins_4.14.6-4~ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb. For me it works as
desired, i.e. Konqueror now shows the login form and I can log in.
However, I cannot test this with a working SPNEGO environment, since I
have not such environment at hand.

(It seems in KDE's source repository the file is now located at
ioslaves/http/http.cpp rather than kioslave/http/http.cpp as found in
the Ubuntu source package. However, the bug seems to be still present in
KDE's source. Just search for "Authorization failed".)

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/+bug/1392709/comments/4

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On 2015-09-30T13:21:35+00:00 Trogel-3 wrote:

Created attachment 94784
Patch as described above.

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/+bug/1392709/comments/5


** Changed in: kdelibs
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: kdelibs
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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