164806 - Proxy: Switch to secure connection fails (https)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56629

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Geert Poels]

(Mozilla 1.1)
Surf to http://www.mail2web.com/, click on 'secure login' in the middle and I
got the error 'www.mail2web.com not found. Please check the name..'
IE6 gives no error.

Comment 1

[Mitch]

Reporter, please tell us what version of mozilla you are
seeing the reported bug on ? You can do that by entering
"about:" in the location bar

Going to the site mentioned and clicking on the secure
login works fine for me on cvs 20020823.

Comment 2

[Geert Poels]

My version is Mozilla 1.1, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 
rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I've found the issue. As I'm behind a proxy, I had to configure the SSL 
proxy ... . This brings up two other things :
- it would be nice to have the option to use the same proxy for all instead of 
having to type the proxy host in each of the cases.
- IE features a "bypass proxy for local adresses".

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

to networking for triage

Comment 4

[Mitch]

The latter 

> - it would be nice to have the option to use the same proxy for
>    all instead of having to type the proxy host in each of the cases.
> - IE features a "bypass proxy for local adresses".

can be implemented using the proxy.pac file in the Automatic Proxy
URL configuration box. Infact using the right javascripting
you can do timed proxying (some times in the day you can get to different
proxied). We use these features in Sun Microsystems. I can send you a
sample .pac file if you email me.

Comment 5

[benc]

Are you behind a firewall that blocks DNS? That would be the only reason you
would get that particular error, because necko tried to make a direct connection.

Both the things you mention are described in existing bugs, but I can't seem to
find them easily.

Comment 6

[benc]

This bug was filed because our errors are vauge.

If you want the "all proxy" pref UI, vote for bug 50380. If you want "bypass",
vote for bug 72444.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56629 ***