111927 - messing up links when browsing through LAN AnalogX Proxy

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Andres Aule]

Please take a look at this for some information:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/list.php?f=3&a=2&t=1378

With AnalogX Proxy on home LAN, Open Link in New Tab or opening links in general does not always yield the desired result: the opened webpage is a different one (picked up from the cache) and not the one linked, or the browser returns an "404 Error Not Found" although the page is actually available. Internet Explorer behaves absolutely OK in similar conditions, therefore the problem may be Mozilla-specific. Happened both in Mozilla 0.9.5 and K-Meleon, but not always. Also happens with the Back button sometimes. It has happened more frequently e.g. with opening Google search results.

Steps to reproduce: install AnalogX proxy (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/proxy.htm), use it on LAN (http port 6588), try to open different tabs in Mozilla (may not happen in the first instance but happens sometimes)

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I suspect that your proxy is broken, and doesn't support HTTP/1.0 correctly
(Specifically, the forward compatability rules) IE works because it doesn't use
http/1.0 with proxies by default.

Is it fixed if you go to the debug->networking pref panel and set the http
version to 1.0?

If you telnet to the proxy port manually, and type:

GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google.com


then a blank line, what headers does the server return, and does the connection
close after the page has been sent?

Comment 2

[Andres Aule]

I don't know whether this had to do with http 1.1 (the messing did not 
disappear with http 1.0) but when I changed my proxy to SpoonProxy for a try, 
everything became OK. So if anybody has some extra time here, maybe Mozilla 
should be just tested a little with AnalogX Proxy, which is one of the best 
freeware proxies available (SpoonProxy is free for just 1 user and some 
functionality disappears after 30 days). I think AnalogX should not take all 
the blame because IE worked with both IE 1.0 and 1.1 and Mozilla/K-Meleon 
messed with both 1.0 and 1.1. I still think this has something to do with 
caching.

Comment 3

[Andrew Hagen]

Reporter, is it still broken on build 0.9.9 of Mozilla?

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

No response from reporter in more than a month -> WFM

pi