267665 - TB0.9 does not do proxy authentication

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[V V Raja Rao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.9/thunderbird-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

I tried to subscribe to a RSS feed and I am behind a proxy which requires
authentication. TB does not ask for proxy authentication and says that the
entered URL is not a valid RSS feed(I have specified the proxy settings in
'Connection Settings'). The same URL when loaded in TB0.8 asks for proxy
authentication.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on (News & Blogs) --> Manage Subscriptions --> Add
2. Enter http://www.slashdot.org/index.rss and hot OK
3. 
Actual Results:  
TB0.9 says its not a valid RSS feed.

Expected Results:  
TB should prompt for proxy authentication.

Comment 1

[trix supremo]

was able to duplicate this problem.  When authentication is required via
Uname/Pwd or IP address, instead of receiving the authentication dialog to allow
username/password entry, an error is displayed stating that the entered URL is
not a valid RSS Feed.

this is duplicatible on all platforms.

Comment 2

[trix supremo]

fyi: firefox correctly prompts for authentication.

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Based on Trix's comments, confirming this bug.  Scott - changing milestone to
1.0 for consideration - think this should probably be fixed for 1.0.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

trix did this work in 0.8?

It looks to me like mozilla's xml http request code doesn't know how to handle
proxy requests if I'm reading the code right. If that's the case this won't be
fixable for 1.0. 

Comment 5

[V V Raja Rao]

If any of the already existing feeds are clicked, then tb asks for auth. only
when a new feed is added it doesn't ask for proxy auth. 
it works for me without the above problem in 0.8  

Comment 6

[trix supremo]

scott: 0.8 did authenticate correctly.  when behind a proxy requiring
authentication, the correct dialog would display when adding a new news feed and
when retrieving feeds from existing links.  

perhaps what VV Raja Rao was observing was adding a new feed after he previously
authenticated when retrieving from an existing feed. in that case since that
session has already been established, re-authentication is what was expected
which isnt the case.

Comment 7

[V V Raja Rao]

Let me make myself more clear. This is what I did: I opened 0.8, added a few RSS
feed urls. Absolutely no problem there. Now, I close 0.8,  open 0.9 and try to
add a new feed url. 0.9 doesn't ask for proxy auth and says its not a valid RSS
feed. Now I click on already existing feed(which I added using 0.8), 0.9 asks
for proxy auth.

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

this is checked into the aviary 1.0 branch so I can get testing help with this
in the short term. The fix was the same fix for Bug #260836 but I want to make
sure we test them separately so I'll leave this as a separate bug. 

Leaving open until the reviews are finished. 

Trix, you should be good to go to test this out in tomorrow's bits. 

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

now fixed on the trunk too. closing out. 

Comment 10

[trix supremo]

Looks good.  Authentication is now prompted, connection is established, and
messages are now transferred.  Verified on all 20041123 builds