Uselessly prompts for credentials

[jeanrajotte]

On Firefox on MacOS, when I click the "Search" button on the toolbar tool, the extension prompts for credentials (that it already has in the settings). I click on Cancel and the search completes. Clearly it is using the credentials in settings (to save new bookmarks and to search the existing ones). The prompting is redundant.

[damko]

Thanks Jean for your donation, really appreciated.

The thing is that my addon is dated. The nextcloud bookmark app has changed a its API and I didn't follow up yet. I will definitely review the PRs and add the required changes but I'm extraordinary busy since a while now.

[IzzySoft]

I've also tapped into this annoying issue. Unfortunately, while the web server logs indicate search results were returned, for me the menu just closes when leaving that credential prompt – so I cannot see the results. Couldn't find a way to work around that, hints welcome (@jeanrajotte did you something to keep the list open that I might have missed? Which Nextcloud & Bookmarks version are you using? Maybe it behaves differently on MacOS; I'm on Linux here).

• with Nextcloud 15: no such issue
• 16: work-around was to log in to Nextcloud in the very same browser, then the popup no longer happened
• 17: always the popup, never the list.

@damko any chance you'll find some time to look into this? I still didn't give up hope, and Freedommarks is an essential part in my workflows. After being unable to upgrade Nextcloud for quite a while (had to wait for a dist upgrade to get PHP > 7.0) I'm no afraid that when upgrading, my workflows will be broken…

Related: #24 – which might explain why it still worked with NC16 (Bookmarks 2.3.4) as with NC17 Bookmarks got upgraded to 3.3.4.

[IzzySoft]

PS: I grabbed the URL called by FM (<nextcloud_server>/index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark?search%5B%5D=&conjunction=and&page=0&limit=30) and ran it in my browser directly. I get the very same credential prompt. Feeding it with my credentials, the JSON is retrieved. On subsequent calls, there's no more credential prompt.

AAAND: from then on, Freedommarks simply works! So the work-around with NC17/Bookmarks 3.3.4 is to simply call that URL once in a tab directly. Ugh, workflow saved 😄

[IzzySoft]

Funnily, this seems to be browser-specific: in Waterfox Classic, I don't have this issue. In Waterfox G3, I have it (but the work-around does its job).

[jeanrajotte]

@IzzySoft thanks for these stories :)
I don't have the issue anymore. I didn't have to use a workaround. The extension just works now.

FYI, I use the Brave browser.

[IzzySoft]

I still have to use it every now and then (on G3 only, though), so I made it a bookmark. Another explanation might be it's not the browser itself, but the fact that in Classic I always have a pinned tab open to my NC calendar, which keeps the browser logged-in. I meanwhile reached NC19 in my update run, and all is working smoothly \o/ Unfortunately, I cannot update further as with NC20 at least one of the apps I use would stop working (requiring PHP7.3 while my LTS is limited to 7.2). But hey, at least I reached a supported version again 🤣 And FreedomMarks is still working, yay!