1034298 - Warn about changes to proxy auto-config preferences

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Add-on Validation, defect)

Description

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

We need to warn about changes to proxy auto-config preferences ('network.proxy.autoconfig_url') for two reasons:

1) Remote proxy auto-config scripts are not allowed, since they can change at any time and therefore can't be reliably reviewed.

2) Only one add-on may change register an auto-config URL at once, while there are many which have reason to do so.

Add-ons which use remote PAC URLs need to be rejected for remote script use, and add-ons which use local or generated PAC scripts need to be redirected to use proxy filters (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIProtocolProxyService#registerFilter()) instead.

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

https://github.com/mozilla/amo-validator/pull/262/commits

Comment 2

[Mathieu Agopian [:magopian]]

PR 62 was merged in https://github.com/mozilla/amo-validator/commit/f2314d8aa0bde352308802439306f9c67a117da8, anything missing for this bug to be marked as fixed?