262110 - No proxy: setting for Intranet sites (internal network)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 72444

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[C Goldsborough]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

when in Ie - you can specify to allow Localhost and do not have enter each site
name for all the IntrAnet sites. We use a proxy server here at work and the only
way I can get FireFox to display wall the Intranet sites is to add each 'id" to
the connection settings. It becomes a huge pain when you have several sites on
your IntrAnet. Isn't there a way to indicate - Local sites are allowed???
localhost (migrated over from IE) doesn't weem to work. 

Thanks 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to an Intranet site that isn't in the Connections settings proxy area.
2. You'll get proxy error page telling you to "exclude" (IE error)
3.If you add the particular "start" of the page - it'll then display (ie: you
have an intranet site that is called great/people - if you add great - it works).
Actual Results:  
page error display

Expected Results:  
should be easier way to allow "all local sites/Intranet" in connection settings

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

How would you define "intranet" sites?

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

this would probably depend on bug 136789, although I'm not sure that that bug
should be fixed...

Comment 3

[C Goldsborough]

(In reply to comment #1)
> How would you define "intranet" sites?


Intranet as in "local" network addresses that are only accessible through the 
company network - not users from outside the network (unless someone in the 
network dept has specifically given authorization for them to access). WE have 
several departmental websites that have different urls and it becomes a HUGE 
pain to have to add each one to the connection settings (no proxy for:) 
section. When using IE - you do NOT have to input each and every Intranet site 
into it. I'm no expert on network or IE - but I think IE works because there is 
a bypass box check-marked - to ALLOW ALL INTRANET sites. That's the best I can 
explain - if someone is used to using IE and they attempt to use FireFox at 
work - they WILL run into this issues if the company uses a proxy server AND it 
is a HUGE pain to have to add each one individually if ther is NO naming 
standard and there are more than a couple websites (ie: if the company starts 
all their intranet sites with GREAT - then this wouldn't happen). It's not a 
showstopper - but I think users without much technical backgorund will have 
problems and even techies -may not want to keeps updating this setting. We also 
have users at our comapnay that have NO ADMIN rights to their box and I can 
tell you our Desktop department will NOT want to have to add all these for each 
user.. 

Thanks again

Comment 4

[benc]

We've tried to research IE's definition of that, but there doesn't seem to be a
clear definition that can be implemented.

Comment 5

[benc]

->networking 
changed dependency to the "just emulated IE" bug.

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

To me this looks just like a dupe of bug 72444. Anyhow, an important fix for corporate networks.

pi