Closed Bug 208828 Opened 21 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Firefox does not load home page through proxy on launch/startup with PAC (proxy auto-configuration)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
1.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: eric.d.friedman, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [closeme 2009-03-14]) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

I have configured firebird to use a proxy server by pointing it at my company's
auto-proxy configuration script.  This works fine.  However, when I first launch
firebird, the attempt to load my home page (http://www.google.com/) hangs.  If I
then click the "home" icon, it loads with no problem.  This makes me suspect
that the request for the home page is going out before the proxy information has
been loaded.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Brand new installation
2. Point configuration at autoproxy script
3. set home page to google
4. exit firebird
5. launch firebird
6. watch firebird hang on initial request for home page
7. click home icon and see firebird load home page




Expected Results:  
initial request for home page should have worked.
Eric, thanks for reporting this bug. Unfortunately this one seems to be a dupe
of bug #100022 filed against SeaMonkey. So please always check if your problem
can be reproduced also in Mozilla SeaMonkey before filing bugs against Mozilla
Firebird (see also http://texturizer.net/firebird/bugs.html#2).

=> resolving duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100022 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
VERIFIED
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
REOPEN to depends.

When you firefox people file this bug and mark it as a dupe, it disappears from
future queries, more people re-file, then re-dupe. I'm tired of getting a lot of
dupe reports in the original bug.

Please try to modify this summary so it catches as many reporters as possible.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Depends on: 100022
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: firebird does not load home page through proxy on launch → Firefox does not load home page through proxy on launch/startup
Summary: Firefox does not load home page through proxy on launch/startup → Firefox does not load home page through proxy on launch/startup with PAC (proxy auto-configuration)
*** Bug 239812 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 262168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 286210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should be fixed with FF trunk builds and Deer Park Alpha 2 release and higher.
See bug 100022.
In today's build, PAC did not work.:-(


Windows XP SP1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050626
Firefox/1.0+
Have also encountered this problem.  Occurs on Firefox 1.0.5 on Windows XP Pro
SP1 (on my machine).  Did not occur or Firefox 1.0
(In reply to comment #9)
> Have also encountered this problem.  Occurs on Firefox 1.0.5 on Windows XP Pro
> SP1 (on my machine).  Did not occur or Firefox 1.0

Exact same issue here. Was fine until Firefox 1.0.6 and beyond. Will no longer
load the initial homepage unless you reload it. Quite annoying!
I just updated to 1.0.6 on Win2K and found this new behavior.

Also, note that it's not just having a problem loading the configured homepage,
but whatever first page is attempted.  I have a blank "homepage" which works
just fine.  But the first page load of any bookmark or address will pull up my
corporation's must-use-proxy error page instead.

The option for the proxy file is remembered.  If I hit "Reload" then subsequent
queries work.  It appears to just fail to load the proxy file on process
startup.  Subsequent windows have no problem, but the problem reappears after
all windows close (and the process shuts down).

1.0.7 - VERIFIED
Hello, I am trafficMonitor developer from Kaspersky Lab, Russia.
I have found the problem with opening home page in Firefox through my proxy. I
know why it happens.
There are two steps:
1. Firefox starts first connection for download proxy configuration script.
   >> Firefox is not waiting for finish of download the script!
2. Firefox starts second connection for download homepage. Now Firefox don't
know about proxy and it tries to connect to homepage DIRECTLY.

You have to synchronize these two steps!

Here is my short trace:
time        	thread	Trace
10:54:47.071	1fd0	CProxySessionManager::Run => Starting new Session...
10:54:47.289	1fd0	CThreadImp::Start => 1.
10:54:47.507	19b8	Connect => Connect to (10.64.0.7:80)...
10:54:47.570	19b8	ReadWriteSocket => Connected to 10.64.0.7:80.
10:54:47.601	19b8	_send => >> (463) GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1..Host: prox
10:54:47.694	1fd0	CProxySessionManager::Run => Starting new Session...
10:54:47.772	19b8	_send => << (269) HTTP/1.1 200 OK..Date: Tue, 04 Oct
10:54:47.803	19b8	_send => << (512) //Copyright (c) 1997 Microsoft Cor
10:54:47.990	19b8	_send => << (512) 4]="ca-root.kaspersky.com".this[5]
10:54:48.318	1fd0	CThreadImp::Start => 2.
10:54:48.505	19b8	_send => << (512) st){.. var urlhash, ibest, bestsco
10:54:48.801	19b8	_send => << (512) xies[i].hash));.. list = "";.. for
10:54:48.988	19b8	_send => << (512) if (slashes < 3)..   c = c.toLower
10:54:48.988	1cac	Connect => Connect to (62.118.249.38:80)...
10:54:48.988	19b8	_send => << (314) ??????????&#157;&#382;? &#161;&#162;&#163;¤&#165;¦§&#168;©&#170;«¬­®&#175;°±&#178;&#179;&#180;
10:54:49.050	19b8	ReadWriteSocket => >> end of connection.
10:54:49.050	19b8	ReadWriteSocket => Leave....
10:55:09.920	1cac	Connect => Unable to connect. GetLastError: 10060.
10:55:09.920	1cac	ReadWriteSocket => Could not connect to 62.118.249.3
10:55:09.920	1cac	ReadWriteSocket => Leave....


This bug will never be fixed for FF 1.0.x. Please add only new comments if you see this with FF 1.5 or higher. Please upgrade to FF 1.5 to solve the issue.
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
Up graded to 1.5 or whatever the latest version is and still no improvement. Hell i miss my FF and Mozilla doesn't work either
I found missing FF files in a Norton AntiVirus Folder (I think Quarinteed and they were deleted too) I Removed Norton AV (it didn't want to go quietly) and FF just started up without any further action by me.
I switched from Symantec to ZoneAlarm and found Symantec quarantined a vital file (chrome?" when I applied an earlier Firefox update. "F" Symantec.
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
QA Contact: asa → general
It looks like this bug came and went from Firebird 0.6 through Firefox 1.5.... Is it still present in Firefox 3? (I would venture to guess that it would have made more of a ruckus if it were....)
Whiteboard: [closeme 2009-03-14]
I'm behind a corporate proxy configured via PAC file and Firefox doesn't hang at startup.

So WFM.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
Looks like this was fixed somewhere along the way. Marking as RESOLVED WORKSFORME, per comment 18.

If this bug does happen to pop up again in the future, I'd recommend filing a new bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago → 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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