167902 - Proxy settings are not gleaned from the active network interface

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim McCarty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020909
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020909

With a network location that has two (or more) interfaces, the proxy settings
should be gleaned from the active interface. In Chimera, the proxy settings are
gleaned from the primary interface only.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a network location with two interfaces (say AirPort and Built-in
Ethernet). Set one to use a proxy server and the other for no proxy server.
2. Start Chimera on a network that uses the primary interface (the first
interface in the pop-up) and browse the internet. Close Chimera.
3. Switch to a network that uses the secondary interface (and different proxy
settings) and start Chimera.
4. Browse the internet.

Actual Results:  
Chimera times out attempting to contact the requested URL - either because it's
trying directly when it should be using a proxt server, or it's searching for a
proxy server when it should be connecting directly

Expected Results:  
Chimera should read the proxy settings from the currently active interface. If
the active interface should change while Chimera is running, Chimera should
update/reload its proxy settings (see bug #167900) from the new active interface.

Comment 1

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Moving to General, as this is more of a Networking problem, I believe.

Comment 2

[Kurt Werle]

So this is why my proxy settings are ignored on my ibook (airport has proxy
setting, ethernet does not).
I would think the severity on this should be higher, but that's probably just
because it affects me.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is fixed now.

Comment 4

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder/pull/7079