136778 - News Client is trying to use proxy server.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[John Malmberg]

In a site with a proxy server and a firewall, after installing Mozilla 0.9.9, I
can only access the local news server if in the browser if no proxy server is
configured.

If a proxy server is configured, the NEWS client is trying to access it instead
of the designated news server.

Of course that means that I can not access any internet sites through the proxy
server.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: Have you added the local News Server to the no-proxy list ?

Comment 2

[John Malmberg]

The news server, it's I.P address range, and it's entire domain are in the
noproxy list.

This was last known to work for me with the 0.9.6 build.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Mailnews

Comment 4

[Colin Blake]

In the _mozilla tree in your SYS$LOGIN you should find a file names PREFS.JS.
Can you search that for the string "proxy" and post the results here (or email
to me if you prefer).

Comment 5

[Colin Blake]

John, do NOT specify * in your no_proxy strings. I believe the way no_proxy
works is to compare the no_proxy strings(s) with the last n characters of the
server name, where n is the length of the no_proxy string. So this means (1)
using * will always for a no-match, and (2) unless you are specifying IP
addresses in your URL's, you don't want IP addresses in your no_proxy string.

Please change your no_proxy string and let me know if it then works.

Comment 6

[Colin Blake]

John reported via mail that after removing the *'s from his no_proxy string that 
it then worked as expected. Marking invalid (is that correct?).

Comment 7

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

Colin, yes, either 'INVALID', or 'WORKSFORME' can be used.  I'm sure there is a
slight difference, but it's vague ;-)

verified.