190053 - PAC: alternative connect methods not tried if proxy server not responding

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 84798

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Markus Peuhkuri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1

If proxy autoconfiguration is configured to return multiple connect methods (as
described in page
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html), only the
first one proxy is tried.  If it fails to respond, no other proxies are tried.

This bug is relaed to #79662

I'm not sure if functionality of mozilla is (or should be) superset of netscape
2.0. (i.e. is this a bug or feature request).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create proxy autoconfiguration which returns string "PROXY localhost:65123;
DIRECT", assuming that you dont have any service on port 65123. Replace with
other port number if needed.
2.Try to connect any web site.


Actual Results:  
I received "The connection was refused when attempting to connect
www.mozilla.org" error message even if www.mozilla.org would be reachable with
direct connection (with no proxy configured).

Expected Results:  
It should have connected using direct connection instead of error message.

A proxy autoconfiguration file used:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
return "PROXY localhost:65123; DIRECT";
}

Comment 1

[benc]

-> networking

Comment 2

[benc]

(matti found it)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84798 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe
This is fixed now, please try Mozilla 1.4b or later.