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Bug 180944 - Bugzilla external authentication
Summary: Bugzilla external authentication
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: connecteddeveloper
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 normal (vote)
Assignee: Tomas Stupka
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Reported: 2010-02-19 01:14 UTC by celafon
Modified: 2013-08-28 10:29 UTC (History)
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Description celafon 2010-02-19 01:14:51 UTC 
Not sure if feature requests are to be reported here. If not -- sorry.

My thought after trying to run bugzilla integration in different work environments is that it would be a good idea to have an external browser do the authentication job. In few situations I have found myself unable to do the tasks which require authentication because the site I was working at had a different authentication back-end which involved some redirections to single sign-on pages. Other than that everything worked fine...

Would that be possible to have netbeans open an external browser and grab the cookies in order to be authenticated? In the cases I have seen, obtaining the cookie would be enough for this to work.

Or maybe is there a way to inform the plugin about the authentication cookie? That would be probably easier to solve and enough for users like me.
Comment 1 Tomas Stupka 2013-08-28 10:29:14 UTC 
- unfortunately, the third-party libs we use to access bugzilla have no way to support the suggested feature
- also that this is quite a corner case

sorry