Bugzilla – Bug 76271
error prone dialogue on authentication screen
Last modified: 2005-06-17 20:33:55 UTC
Build : 0407 iF3e Description : Currently the authentication prompt gives the user a checkbox if they want to authenticate over a different port than 80 or 443. Wouldn't it make more sense from a UI perspective to just have the format be ipaddress:portnumber? We could even prepopulate the initial address with :443 to make it obvious. Expected Results : It took me a while to phrase this defect because I was so used to this in the browser world. When someone wants to use a non-standard port they simply put a colon after the ipaddress ie tomcat on :8080 It took a while to realize that an additional dialogue was a weird way to do it for me. Actual Results : Additional information : See attached screencap for more detail.
Created attachment 33407 [details] this is a screencap of the current method of setting a port
The issue is that we have no protocol field so this is not standard URL syntax. There is nowhere to specify secure or non secure port information via the standard syntax (ie http or https). Since we have to special case part of the standard specification it's no more ugly to have a simple name field entry and an additional optional information field (port, secure) than it is to support part of the additional syntax beyond simple name but not all. I will mark this bug fixed though instead of invalid as I improved the error message if they specify port or path information on the server name.
this is verified in the fcs build
this is released fixed in the fcs build