Re: Trouble with konqueror on http authentication

On marted=EC 26 gennaio 2021 22:04:15 CET Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I don't know how to get this working again. I just updated to 20.04 from
> 16.04 (kubuntu LTS) and before the update this was working great:
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> I start my Linux box (just power on) and remote SSH into the system
> (X-Forwarding enabled). Then I open my applications and also konqueror. T=
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> works all fine and smoothly, websites are displayed fine. Until I try to
> access a website with HTTP-Authentication - there I directly get a 401 - =
no
> asking for a password, nothing, just the 401 page directly. Firefox promp=
ts
> me for the username/password and shows me the page behind the
> authentication. So the server is fine. I tried multiple servers and
> konqueror behaves always the same.
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> Any idea what I broke during the update?
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> Best regards,
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> Erik

Hello Erik,
do you by any chance know whether your previous version of Konqueror still=
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used the WebKit engine or had it already switched to QtWebEngine? In the fi=
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case, I think you can have found yet another feature which stopped working=
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with the switch to the new engine.

If your current Kubuntu version still provides KWebKitPart, you could also =
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installing it, select it as default web engine in the General tab of the=20
Konqueror settings page and check whether the HTTP Authentication works wit=
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it. If it does, the problem lies with QtWebEngine, otherwise, we'll need to=
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investigate somewhere else.

Stefano