243378 - Thunderbird Start Page with WEB URL and proxy : no authentication prompt, so page isn't shown

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David Berlioz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I use thunderbird with proxy conf

I ve changed my start page (tools / options/ general / Thunderbird Start Page)
to http://www.google.fr

I ve restarted thunderbird... and got the answer of my proxy in the message panel :

----
Proxy Authentication Required
bla bla bla ...
----

I was expecting a little proxy-prompt to open :/ ...







Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use thunderbird with proxy conf
2. change start page to http://www.google.fr
3. restart thunderbird

Actual Results:  
answer of my proxy in the message panel :

----
Proxy Authentication Required
bla bla bla ...
----


Expected Results:  
open proxy-prompt and connect to the page

with proxy conf,
thunderbird doesn't display inline http image in html mail..

if you right click and save image ... you got the proxy prompt !!!!

after doing this all the images are dispalyed

PS : the proxy prompt isn't filled in with password manager ... strange is it ?

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

read the known issues list in the release notes BEFORE filing bugs. Thank you.

Comment 2

[jwq]

I beleive this is a duplicate of Bug 205947.

The Thunderbird 0.7 release notes may be found at
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/> and do mention "HTTP
Proxy Authentication and Thunderbird" problems.

Comment 3

[Mike Rambo]

(In reply to comment #1)
> read the known issues list in the release notes BEFORE filing bugs. Thank you.

The release notes for thunderbird v0.8 do not mention this bug but it still 
exists. One way to work around it is to open the address book and click on any 
email address that grabs and icon from external sources (aol for example). THe 
proxy auth box will pop right up and it all works thereafter. But it's a pain to 
have to remember to do that before reading the mail.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

David Berlioz: per comment 4, are you still seeing this issue with current 
builds (since the patch for bug 205947 went in)?

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, => WFM