[FLEX-16702] class mx.controls.HTML fails to bring up HTTP authentication window on 401 error if running on Windows XP in a Window and the original WindowedApplication instance has been closed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: mx: HTML Control, mx: Window, mx: WindowedApplication
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Windows; Affected OS(s): Windows XP; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 26/Nov/08 08:18
• Updated: 10/May/11 11:17

Description

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create an Air application that inherits from WindowedApplication.
2. Have that WindowedApplication object create and open an object that inherits from Window (and contains an HTML control), then close itself.
3. The newly opened Window instance should redirect its HTML control to a site that returns HTTP status 401.

Actual Results:
On Windows XP, the application does not prompt the user for their credentials.

Expected Results:
The application should ask for the user's credentials, give them a chance to log in, and only display the error page if that authentication fails. I'll add that this is the exact behavior witnessed on OS X 10.5.5 and on Windows XP SP2 when the original window doesn't close itself.

Workaround (if any):
Leave the original window open, if possible, if expecting your AIR application to run on Windows XP and behave like it does on OS X.