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LibWeb: Ensure WWW-Authenticate header is present during fetch
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If the HTTP 401 response we get does not contain a `WWW-Authenticate`
header, we should not trigger the logic to ask the user for credentials
and retry the request.

This part is hinted at in a TODO / 'Needs testing' remark in the spec
but needs to be fleshes out. Raised an upstream issue to do so:

  whatwg/fetch#1766

This fixes login forms triggering an infinite fetch loop when providing
incorrect credentials.
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gmta committed Aug 13, 2024
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/Fetch/Fetching/Fetching.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -1987,7 +1987,10 @@ WebIDL::ExceptionOr<JS::NonnullGCPtr<PendingResponse>> http_network_or_cache_fet
if (response->status() == 401
&& http_request->response_tainting() != Infrastructure::Request::ResponseTainting::CORS
&& include_credentials == IncludeCredentials::Yes
&& request->window().has<JS::GCPtr<HTML::EnvironmentSettingsObject>>()) {
&& request->window().has<JS::GCPtr<HTML::EnvironmentSettingsObject>>()
// AD-HOC: Require at least one WWW-Authenticate header to be set before automatically retrying an authenticated
// request (see rule 1 below). See: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1766
&& request->header_list()->contains("WWW-Authenticate"sv.bytes())) {
// 1. Needs testing: multiple `WWW-Authenticate` headers, missing, parsing issues.
// (Red box in the spec, no-op)

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