Closed Bug 198797 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

drop to 'direct connection' if proxy fails

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 79662

People

(Reporter: davidmaxwaterman, Assigned: dougt)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030321 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030321 Please implement a facility such that mozilla drops to 'direct connection' proxy configuration on failure of the proxy preference settings. This facility would be useful to me because I frequently move from a proxy network to a direct connection network, and such a feature would mean I would not need to reconfigure the preferences. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.n/a 2. 3.
Dupe of Bug 79662 That said you might want and see if PrefBar http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/ will do what you want untill a real solution is created.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79662 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Wow! Awesome! Thanks :)
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Summary: RFE:drop to 'direct connection' → drop to 'direct connection' if proxy fails
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