206487 - proxies.pac not accepted by mozilla when upgrading from 1.3 to 1.4b

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 206485

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[jayhenn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

After upgrading from mozilla 1.3 to 1.4b, my automatic proxy configuration file
is no longer working.

To verify that it wasn't the file:/// syntax, I switched it to a local web
server and monitored the logs.

After changing the automatic proxy configuration URL to that system, Mozilla
never attempted to access the machine, indicating that it wasn't even attempting
to load it.

Without proxy configuration files, people in certain sites with complex Internet
 configurations will have difficulty using Mozilla.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to edit->preferences->advanced->proxies
2. Enable "Automatic Proxy Configuration URL", and enter
"http://your.web.server/something.pac"
3. Monitor your webserver's log, and notice that mozilla never attempts to access it

Actual Results:  
Mozilla does not even attempt to read the proxies.pac I gave it

Expected Results:  
It should have read and interpretted my proxies.pac, both from my local system
(via file:///C:/here/there/proxies.pac") and from an http/https/ftp/gopher URL

Comment 1

[jayhenn]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206485 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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