258378 - Cannot get proxy to work, when it does work with Explorer

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[lethin2002]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

I'm not successful at getting a proxy configuration.  The proxy server is
http://copy.its.yale.edu:8080.  When I configure this, I get an error message
trying to access any page.  Related to this, it seems to matter if the http://
is included or not in the name of the proxy server.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies
2. Set up Manual configuration 
3. Server is copy.its.yale.edu, port is 8080
4. OK, then go to any web page

Actual Results:  
Get error message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access http://www.google.com/ on this server.

Apache/1.3.26 Ben-SSL/1.48 Server at www-proxy.cis.yale.edu Port 8080

Expected Results:  
Gone to the authentication web page, let me log in.


Maybe this is a bug with Yale's proxy server?

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

It is a PAC. Use "Automatic proxy configuration URL" and put
http://copy.its.yale.edu:8080 in it. This should work.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It is a PAC. Use "Automatic proxy configuration URL" and put
> http://copy.its.yale.edu:8080 in it. This should work.

Like ostgote said (PAC = Proxy Automatic Configuration). Most PAC urls contains
a filename (proxy.pac for example), but this one looks like a hostname, and a
user might be tempted to fill in the information in the manual fields (hostname
and port). Note that the full URL is actually
<http://copy.its.yale.edu:8080/proxy.pac>.

This is a dupe of bug 30387 : Netscape 4 used URL's in the field for the manual
proxy, but Mozilla uses hostnames. If a user follows old instructions, the
configuration doesn't work.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30387 ***

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Stupid me. This isn't a dupe of bug 30387.

The real bug is that the user took the hostname and port from
<http://copy.its.yale.edu:8080> (not realizing that it was really a PAC url),
and filled that in the manual fields.