216329 - Firebird tries to load home page before finishing processing the auto proxy (PAC)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 100022

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030813 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030813 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

If you are behind a firewall requiring an automatic proxy configuration, and you
either have your homepage set to something that requires proxying or if firebird
is envoked specifying a URL that requires proxying it appears there is a race
condition where the proxy pac processing might not be completed before the
attempt is made to acces the page.  If I set my homepage to
http:/www.mozillazine.org/ it almost always fails on startup.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install firebird on a PC behind a proxy
2. set the homepage to something that needs to conect via the proxy and will
fail a dns lookup if it attempts to connect directly.
3. set up a rather long and complicated proxy pac file that will end up making
access to the desired site go via the proxy and put this somewhere other than on
the pc itself so that the pac must be laoded across the network
4. configure the connection settings in firebird to automatic proxy
configuration url.
4. exit firebird
5. restart firebird
Actual Results:  
recieved pop-up with error message www.mozillazine.org could not be found ...

Expected Results:  
loaded the page via the proxy

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215457 ***

Comment 2

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

How can this bug be a duplicate of BUG 215457?  That bug report was against
Mozilla and has already been fixed.  This bug may in fact be the identical
problem, but I am reporting it against Mozilla Firebird and the problem still
exists in the latest nightly build.  It's great that the problem has been
resolved but the fix kind of needs to be put into Mozilla Firebird too!

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

yeah, the bug that was fixed (and that was also fixed for firebird... same
source code actually!) is not this bug.  duplicate resolution was invalid.  this
is however a duplicate of another bug, which isn't yet fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100022 ***