248617 - HTML mail fails to load images behind authenticating proxy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205947

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Constantine Dokolas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Besides the persistence of bug 243852 (re-entered as bug 248592), Thunderbird
0.7 does not download images (or CSS for that matter) for HTML mail.

Although I'm behind an authenticating web proxy and I have given its name and
port in the advanced configuration, I never get asked for a username or password
(Mozilla 1.6 and 1.7 have worked fine all the time for me).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get behind an authenticating web proxy
2. Configure Thunderbird 0.7 for it (mind bug 248592)
3. Join the list at http://list.theregister.co.uk/cgi-bin/subscribe.cgi
4. Wait for the daily report
5. Open the report

Actual Results:  
No images appear when I open any HTML mail.

Expected Results:  
It should've loaded the images and the css for the message (or at least the images).

I seem to remember it working a couple of times on Thunderbird 0.6 (when I first
installed it probably), but ever since it's broken. I thought something might
have gone wrong and a bad username/password got stored permanently, but I
haven't been able to find anything related in the profile files.

Should I attach a sample to this bug, and how?

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Looks like a dupe of Bug 205947.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205947 ***