101287 - enh: talkback support for authorizing proxy web servers e.g. squid

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36545

(Core Graveyard :: Talkback Client, enhancement)

Description

[David Cox]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4+)
Gecko/20010920
BuildID:    2001092003

I am unable to get talkback support because talkback does not provide support
for authorizing proxy servers e.g. squid 1.1.22

There is no provision for providing a user/password combination in the popup,
and the talkback does not appear to handle a request from the proxy.

See some comments in bug 19271

I am unable to provide talkback info about crashes I am experiencing with
mailnews etc.

Our company has a policy of authorising all external conections for accounting
and acceptable use policy reasons.


 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run talkback (from L:\My Programs\mozilla.org\Mozilla\components)
2.Generate an event
3.Click the 'send' icon to "Send Queued Incidents(s)" (sic)

Actual Results:  Get a popup saying
The Agent is unable to connect to the server. Please check your Proxy Server
settings or try again later.

windump shows that the squid proxy server has sent an authorisation error packet.

Expected Results:  An session authorisation popup is displayed (i.e. request for
user/password as per Mozilla browser) and tghe results used to open an
authorised connection.

I shall attach a windump log of the interaction with the proxy server.

Comment 1

[David Cox]

Attachment: windump log of talkback/squid dialog

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Also true on w2k; should os switch to all ?

Comment 3

[Fergus T. Bunratty]

Dup of bug 36545?

Comment 4

[David Cox]

Probably, provided the authentication is the same for squid (this bug) and
Netscape proxy server (36545).

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

I agree that it's a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36545 ***

Comment 6

[timeless]

vrfy dupe