liferea: Internal browser does not use user/password supplied to feed reader.

I am using liferea to read a private feed, that is protected via HTTPS and can be accessed via user/password only.

I have my user/password for this feed configured as HTTP-Authentification.

Liferea can check whether new feed items are present. No need to type in that password information. Configuration works.

The feed and content are well behaved: The "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm" of the feed and the content are identical, and they are served by the same host.

I have configured liferea to show the items in the internal reader.

I click on an item the first time since liferea has been started.

Expected outcome: The auth info configured into the reader is used to access the content.

Outcome seen: I need to retype user and password again. (Tomorrow, again. Day after tomorrow, again. ...)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: liferea 1.6.6b-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 044b6a9ee737a1ea423a152bbaa84d97
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Fri Nov 25 18:41:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
SourcePackage: liferea
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-28 (27 days ago)