Closed Bug 129045 Opened 22 years ago Closed 19 years ago

SOCKS4 support is broken on RS6000-AIX

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(Core :: Networking, defect)

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AIX
defect
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VERIFIED WORKSFORME
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(Reporter: kenshir, Assigned: darin.moz)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 002474094C00; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011024
BuildID:    2002020605

When configuring mozilla to use a SOCKS4 proxy under powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3, the
proxy layer is apparently attempting to use the socks4 host as an HTTP proxy
host.  My socks4 host is returning an error message indicating the browser is
making a proxy request, which it cannot serve.

It is important to note that the 0.9.5 release did work correctly on this
platform for socks4 functionality.  Beginning with the 0.9.6 release, and under
all subsequent releases including the present 0.9.8 release, this functionality
has not worked.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Under Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies->Manual proxy configuration put a
valid socks4 host in the line (socks2.server.ibm.com for me).
2.Click OK
3.Go to any web address

Actual Results:  socks4 proxy returns an error message coded in HTML. This
message says that the browser tried to make a request as if the host was an HTTP
proxy, which it is not.  The socks4 server refuses all such requests.

Expected Results:  Load web page accordingly.

The HTML message of the socks4 server is :

<html><head><title>Configuration Error</title></head>
 <body>
  <h1>This machine is not an HTTP proxy</h1>
  <p>
   Please check your proxy configuration settings.  This machine
   is a SOCKS server, and your web client attempted to use it as
   as an HTTP proxy server.
  </p>
 </body></html>

I have a screen capture of my configuration window showing my proxy
configuration.  Since I can't attach it with this web form, I will be happy to
email it to anyone interested in fixing this bug.  Please contact me at
<SPAMkenshir@MEus.ibm.comNOT>.
You can attach the attachment once you've created the bug. If you have an http
proxy set, mozilla will prefer to use that rather than the socks host (this is
different to ns4) check that thats not what is happening.
Bradley, I am fairly certain that I am leaving the HTTP proxy field blank (see
pic).  I don't know how to read the config information that Mozilla saves in
the user directories, so I don't know if it would be buried in there somewhere.
 I am assuming though that it would show up in this dialog though if it were
getting set somehow.
Odd. Does this work on linux/windows/mac builds?

Can you try a newer build, too? Although I don't think anything changed in that
regard recently.
Temporarily "futuring" all PAC&SOCKS bugs to clear new-networking queue.

I will review later. (I promise)

If you object, and can make a case for a mozilla 1.0 fix, please reset milestone
to  "--" or email me.
Target Milestone: --- → Future
I've been trying to get SOCKS4 support working in both Windows and Linux, and 
as of the latest milestone (Mozilla 1.0) this is STILL broken.  I have tried 
with two separate SOCKS4 servers.  One is windsock, which is a Java-based 
SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy server (you can find it by searching on 
http://freshmeat.net), and the other one is a home-brewed SOCKS4 server that I 
wrote to monitor my network traffic.  Both servers work correctly with Internet 
Explorer on Windows and AIM on Windows and Linux.
Another reason we need to get contributors to check Win/Mac/Linux when smaller
platforms report problems... sigh...

I'll look into this Monday.
Going ahead and marking this NEW...no one i know around here has an
RS6000..though if ibm were to donate one to me I would sure as heck help out the
testing :)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Socks is now broken on both IRIX and Mac OS X with build 2003012213. I confirmed
that it still works for mozilla 1.3a on IRIX and using netscape on IRIX.

This is a serious bug, since I can no longer read email from any of the email
accounts external to our company (eg mac.com).

Unlike this bug, I have only seen this problem within the last few weeks. I
update mozilla most days.

Max.
build 2003012213 is a very broken build.  please try a more recent build such as
one from today or later.  thx!
Assignee: new-network-bugs → darin
> build 2003012213 is a very broken build.  please try a more recent build such as
> one from today or later.  thx!

I just downloaded it this morning using this link :

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-macosX-trunk.smi.bin

and it gave me 2003012213.

I just tried to download directly from the web site, and the link fails. Can you
provide me a valid URL to download a more recent build from?

Looking in the directory, that file does not exist...I do see a
mozilla-macosX-cfm.smi.bin though. Should I be downloading that now? I'll give
it a try. If it is some new version, could you have the link fixed on the main
page :

http://www.mozilla.org/

Thanks.

Max.
mozilla-macosX-cfm.smi.bin is also 2003012213...(and doesn't work)

What's going on? Is noone building a Mac OS X binary any more?

Max.
max: the "problem" is that mozilla has switched from the CFM binary format to
the Mach-O binary format.  you should download the one named
MacMozilla-MachO.dmg.gz.
i imagine you're not the only one still downloading the old build :(
FYI: We got already hit by that in other bugs: see also bug 191203
MacMozilla-MachO.dmg.gz works. Sorry for the noise, though I recommend someone
switch the link on mozilla.org, or at least have it point to something rather
than dangle. Nothing should be allowed to dangle like that :)

Max.
I have tested this against the IBM socks server shown in the proxy config window
with today's daily build (20040203).

I went in preferences to Advanced->Proxies, clicked the Advanced button, and
filled in the socks server and port at the bottom. I checked the nspr log to
ensure that it was using the socks server to connect. I don't see any issues on
AIX any more.

Resolving this bug as WORKSFORME.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
V/per Philip's comments.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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