Fill Basic Auth Prompts (htaccess passwords)

grb · October 27, 2024, 2:59pm

This is the normal and expected behavior. The “strange” part is that you need to press Esc and F5 for this to work.

There is a recent bug report on GitHub, which might be related. Please take a look, and submit your own observations there if you think the thread is relevant to your experience:

github.com/bitwarden/clients

htaccess autofill and pattern matching used to work

opened 09:56PM - 25 Oct 24 UTC

plittlefield

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### Steps To Reproduce Try to load a web page protected by Basic Authentication… htaccess that has a unique URI. ### Expected Result A basic authentication htaccess protected page used to be automatically filled in and submitted by Bitwarden leading to the page automatically displaying. ### Actual Result It now no longer works automatically. ### Screenshots or Videos _No response_ ### Additional Context A subreddit … https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1gaxw8o/htaccess_autofill_and_pattern_matching_used_to/ ### Operating System Linux ### Operating System Version _No response_ ### Web Browser Chrome, Firefox ### Browser Version _No response_ ### Build Version 2024.10.1 ### Issue Tracking Info - [X] I understand that work is tracked outside of Github. A PR will be linked to this issue should one be opened to address it, but Bitwarden doesn't use fields like "assigned", "milestone", or "project" to track progress.

Is the URL for the page that triggers the Basic Auth prompt identical (character for character) to the URL for the “standard” (non-basic) login prompt? If not, you can solve the problem by using two separate vault items and strict URI match detection rules. If the two URLs are identical, then it will be difficult to solve the problem, because your Basic Auth login will stop working if there is a second vault item that matches. I might be able to suggest a work-around if that is the case — please let me know.