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authorwolfbeast <mcwerewolf@wolfbeast.com>2019-03-01 14:10:57 +0100
committerwolfbeast <mcwerewolf@wolfbeast.com>2019-03-01 14:12:02 +0100
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Improve the http basic auth DOS protection heuristics.
-> Merge branch 'authprompt-work'
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diff --git a/application/basilisk/app/profile/basilisk.js b/application/basilisk/app/profile/basilisk.js
index 79d767851..24f1c582c 100644
--- a/application/basilisk/app/profile/basilisk.js
+++ b/application/basilisk/app/profile/basilisk.js
@@ -1438,3 +1438,11 @@ pref("browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2", false);
// controlling validation are located in /services/sync/services-sync.js
pref("services.sync.validation.enabled", true);
#endif
+
+// When a user cancels this number of authentication dialogs coming from
+// a single web page (eTLD+1) in a row, all following authentication dialogs
+// will be blocked (automatically canceled) for that page.
+// This counter is per-tab and per-domain to minimize false positives.
+// The counter resets when the page is reloaded from the UI
+// (content-reloads do NOT clear this to mitigate reloading tricks).
+pref("prompts.authentication_dialog_abuse_limit", 3);