173691 - Proxy: do configuration during profile creation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

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From bug 59969:
 - do proxy configuration during profile creation

This sounds prudent to me, since not having proxy set makes your new profile
useless if you are on a proxy only network.

We should include this as part of profile creation because in the old days, we
just assumed people knew where this was because they had used Communicator. In
reality, that assumption is not the most prudent.

Comment 1

[Pavel Franc - Mozilla.cz]

On MS Windows you can find the proxy setting used by Internet Explorer by
quering registry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
for AutoConfigURL, ProxyServer, ProxyOverride, ProxyEnable ...

If "Automatic Proxy Configuration" in IE is set to on, IE query
http://wpad.<your_domain>/wpad.dat for proxy configuration file.

This would be definetely appreciate feature for users behind proxy traying to
switch from IE to Mozilla. 

Comment 2

[Lee Carré]

> If "Automatic Proxy Configuration" in IE is set to on, IE query
> http://wpad.<your_domain>/wpad.dat for proxy configuration file.

that's only one method of autodetection, there's a spec related to how autodetection should be done, and the first way is via a DHCP value (code 252) which allows admins to specify the URL of the config file (including server, port, path and filename)

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

The SeaMonkey team has no interest in working on this, and as the default setting is now to use the system's proxy settings, the problem should be mostly gone anyhow.