130799 - Proxied IMAP doesn't work if proxy is autoconfigured

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78176

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[h3i6m4z02]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310
BuildID:    2002031005

Reading mail with IMAP via a SOCKS proxy doesn't work if the proxy
is autoconfigured, but does if manually configured. HTTP works
correctly with either the autoconfigured or manual proxy.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select "autoconfigure" in the proxy preferences
2. Autoconfigure the proxy by pressing button or restarting Mozilla
3. Start mailnews for IMAP account.
4. Observe mailnews fail to connect to IMAP server.
5. Exit mailnews.
6. Select manual proxy configuration in proxy preferences.
7. Restart mailnews. Observe it to now work.


Actual Results:  mailnews hangs.


Expected Results:  mailnews should connect to IMAP server via the autoconfigured
proxy.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

CC bbaetz

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Can you attach your PAC file?

What socks version is your sever - PAC only does socks4, and theres a separate
bug on that.

Comment 3

[h3i6m4z02]

My manual proxy configuration uses socks5,
so that could be the "problem".

Here's the PAC file:

// Your address is 163.154.6.201 and i can't find you in my database! THIS IS A
BUG!!! Please report it to [e-mail]
// Default PAC file (catch-all)

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
	addr = dnsResolve(host)
	if (addr) {
		if (	0
			|| isInNet(addr, "127.0.0.1", "255.255.255.255"))
			return "DIRECT";
		else
			return "PROXY www-proxy.sgi.com:8080";
	} else
		return "PROXY www-proxy.sgi.com:8080";
}

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

There are two problems here:

First, PROXY is http - you need SOCKS to use sock.

Second, there isn't (yet) a way to do socks5 from a pac file.

Dupe of the bug for the second issue, I guess.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78176 ***

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup