[Qgis-user] Strange authentication behaviour on startup using proxy

[Christian Beer]

Hello again,

my initial email might have slipped through hover the holidays so I
decided to try again and get some feedback from other users that also
have to use a proxy to access the internet at work.

MfG
Christian Beer

Am 26.12.21 um 19:43 schrieb Christian Beer:
> Hello,
>
> I came accros a strange behaviour with one of our qgis users. I'm not
> sure if this is a problem for developers or expereinced qgis users so
> I'm starting to post it here.
>
> We are using a webproxy to access the Internet. I configured QGIS to use
> the proxy and saved the authentication info (username/password) into the
> auth database. There are two other authentication settings for external
> WFS content that is only reachable through the Internet (via said proxy)
> in the auth database.
> Whenever QGIS starts it asks for a username and password to access the
> Internet although this information is already stored in the authdb. When
> I enter the correct proxy credentials the external WFS content is shown
> and I can see the stored configurations in the options dialog. When I
> don't enter the proxy credentials or choose to skip the initial question
> for credentials (there is an option to skip for 10 seconds) the external
> content (WFS and News Feed) is not shown and the content of the
> authentication database is also not shown in the options dialog. Wehn
> editing the external WFS layer qgis tells me that the configuration is
> missing. Restarting and entering the correct credentials then works again.
>
> Several questions here: Why is there a prompt for the proxy credentials
> when they are part of the authenticaion database? Why is the authdb not
> loaded when I skip the proxy credentials prompt? I also noticed that
> sometimes even entering the correct credentials in the initial prompt
> doesn't load the authdb. The only way to get it working is deleting the
> authdb file and adding the credentials again.
>
> This is also available as a github issue with steps to reproduce and
> versions tested: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/46216
>