218290 - I am unable to login to my Hotmail account; Mozilla says it cannot find the host <loginnet.passport.com> to process my login info.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Adel 'Bald Vegetable']

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

It seems that mozilla really can't resolve the hostname. After typing the
hotmail url, the actual url is: <http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2>;
then, the login info is sent with the https protocol [same server, it seems]. No
cookie is (supposedly) involved, since I checked the tickbox for public
computer. The same kind of problem occurs when I try to access my RedHat Network
(Demo) account [https://rhn.redhat.com] : Mozilla says it cannot resolve the
host [Mozilla 1.4 for linux and Konqueror 3.05a also are unable to resolve the
host]. I connect to the internet through a http 1.1 proxy.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.hotmail.com/
2.fill in login info [should I create a dummy account to let you do that];
3.check the tickbox for "Do not remember my e-mail address for future sign-in.
(Select this when using a public computer.)", and clicking "Sign In".

Actual Results:  
A message box pops up saying: "loginnet.passport.com not found. Please check the
name and try again".

Expected Results:  
Login into my mailbox.

my feeling is that the problem has to do with https or redirection, possibly the
their combination.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you have the proxy in the Mozilla proxy settings as SSL Proxy ?

Comment 2

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Is this bug 218292?

Comment 3

[Adel 'Bald Vegetable']

Configuring the proxy as a SSL proxy in the Mozilla Proxy Settings resolves the
problem, thanks Matti;

I am sorry, i see now that i should have contacted the support team instead.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you guys.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

No problem but fixed means that there is something changed in mozilla's source

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm

but be sure that you don't use the "socks" field in the proxy settings because
mailnews will stop working