266673 - Check for updates does not use proxy before authentication in browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 259429

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Halfpenny]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox prompted that new updates were available. However retrieving the list of
updates failed. This was repeated and the same behaviour ovbserved. I browsed to
an external web site and entered my proxy authentication credentials and
retried. This time the list of updates was retrieved sucessfully.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox with a proxy requiring authenitcation defined in the config but
without visiting a page that need proxy access e.g. something on the local net
excluded from requiring proxy access.
2. Click on the Update Available icon if present (red circle + arrow on menu bar)
3. Click continue. The list of updates will not be retrieved.
4. Visit a website that goes through the proxy and enter authentication.
5. Retry getting the list of update. Success!
Actual Results:  
Getting the list of available updates fails.

Expected Results:  
The user should be prompted to enter their proxy authentication credentials when
the updater tried to retrieve the list of updates.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259429 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

v.

Comment 3

[benc]

-> firefox.