433674 - Can't handle multiple proxies in proxy autoconfiguration file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 366504

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jyrki Pulliainen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5

If proxy autoconfiguration returns multiple proxies (eg. "SOCKS localhost:2000; DIRECT"), Firefox doesn't use the latter one if the first one(s) fail to connect.

This is not the behaviour that is documented in the proxy.pac docs[1]

[1] http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a proxy.pac file to return two proxies, first being something that doesn't exist and the second being "DIRECT"
2. Reload the proxy.pac in browser
3. Surf the web
Actual Results:  
Firefox can't connect

Expected Results:  
Firefox should use the DIRECT proxy and display the site correctly

I've mostly done the testing using socks proxies, but this seems to be universal for all kind of proxies in proxy.pac

Comment 1

[Sylvain Pasche]

related bugs: bug 366504 or bug 273258 (both unconfirmed).

Comment 2

[Jyrki Pulliainen]

I've propably missed those both when adding this, but I'm now marking this as a dupe of #366504