208574 - Get image/ad loaded/displayed instead of URL when browsing using a proxy over VPN (intermittent)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Molland]

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

When browsing using a proxy server over a corporate VPN connection: clicking on
a link results in an ad or image on the current page being loaded (isntead of
the link URL opening). Hitting "reload" a number of times (2-5) results in the
requested URL being loaded. 

No problems when browsing using the proxy within the firewall. No problems with
direct connect from home...

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. VPN connection to a network
2. Manual configuration of the browser to use a proxy (T1 line)
3. Browse to (say) www.theregister.co.uk.
4. Click on a link - (sometimes) get behaviour described in the details

Actual Results:  
Ad/gif image loaded into browser

Expected Results:  
Opened URL

Sorry, no idea if this happens with any VPN client, or just the Cisco client
used by Oracle UK Ltd.

As a Software Engineer, I would be prepared to help out in resolving this issue
if (i.e. debugging the code) someone is prepared to point me in the right
direction... I currently have no experience with developing for Open Source
Projects (but I do know C/C++!).

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Have you tried it with Http/1.0 for Proxies (in the Mozilla Networking prefs) ?

Comment 2

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Reporter: does this still happen with a recent nightly build ? Can you test
matti's suggestion ? Thanks.

Comment 3

[Richard Molland]

Hi, I've tried setting Http/1.0 for Proxies, and also cleared out the browser
cache. The result is that the problem occurs less frequently, but still happens.
I'm using Mozilla 1.6: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040113 (sorry haven't had time to try a later build yet).

I've also tried setting the cache to query the web-site for every request, again
the problem is reduced, but does not go away (still get images sometimes, rather
than the target page).

Thanks for the suggestions. Please let me know if there is anything else I could
try.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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