217322 - Proxy username and password dialogue does not always appear

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Keith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I connect to the internet in work through a proxy server.  When I launch M$ 
internet exploder it always displays a dialogue asking me for my connection 
credentials and then will proceed to let me use the internet.  Mozilla too 
presents me with a dialogue asking for my connection credentials - but only 
some of the time - approx 1 out of 10 times!  Some days it will not ask me at 
all and just presents me with an alert box with the following message:  "The 
connection was refused when attempting to contact www.mozilla.org".  It's not 
just mozilla - it is ANY website at all.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Require proxy authentication to access the web
2. Try to connect requiring the proxy authentication
3. Try closing Mozilla and re-opening it at various stages

Actual Results:  
I get a connection refused alert box instead of the dialogue asking me for the 
proxy credentials.

Expected Results:  
Presented me with the dialogue box requesting proxy authentication and 
proceeded to let me browse the web.  I cannot find anywhere to force Mozilla to 
ask me for proxy details.  Maybe it is being TOO user friendly ??

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try latest nightly build ?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk

If issue still occur, please post a HTTP log from a minimal session via 'create
a new attachment', see instructions here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

Comment 2

[Gorka]

Same problem here. With Firefox 1.0 (20041115).
I need to connect through the college proxy server to access some articles on
research journals.
With IE everything ok. Before displaying first page it asks for user/pwd.
With Firefox, nothing... well, the curious fact is that with the "Automatic
proxy configuration URL" active I can navigate but not through the proxy. (I
know it because when I connect to www.sciencedirect.com with IE it identify me
as if I were connecting through my college).

Comment 3

[benc]

Gorka, does this happen w/ a new profile?

Do you know what kind of proxy you are using?

Comment 4

[Gorka]

After the problems, I tried the trunk and with it everything was fine.
Now, I try a new 1.0 installation from scratch and everything is just fine. I
thought it was a clean installation before... (november).

Sorry then for the false alarm... :(

G.

Comment 5

[benc]

Keith, how about you?

Comment 6

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Comment 7

[Keith]

Apologies - same result as Gorka.

Thanks for your assistance all.


This can be closed now as far as i'm concerned.

Many thanks
Keith.

Comment 8

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

bugs for which no code changes were done are worksforme, not fixed

Comment 9

[benc]

V/wfm.