272609 - PAC: fails with proxy-only home pages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100022

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[widder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I start up firefox my homepage does not load and I get a "page not found"
error.  If I open tools/options/general/connection settings, click "OK", and
then press the home icon my homepage will load without a problem.  I don't know
the details of our automatic proxy file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up automatic proxy configuration
2. Start up firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
It appears that the proxy information is not automatically loaded.

Expected Results:  
Load the proxy information and then load my homepage without a problem.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and what Do you get if you are trying to load homepage again after the error
without going into the preferences ?

Comment 2

[Walter Mautner]

Appears to apply for "homepage" loading only, which is attempted without using 
the configured *.pac. While waiting for the timeout, a "netstat" on commandline 
reveals Firefox 1.0 is trying to connect directly (shows a direct http request 
to the site at port 80, instead of a proxy connection, with "SYN_SENT" hanging 
around). Later on, the same page URL works flawlessly using the proxy. Which 
makes it a pain in the ass for our corporate users forced to use the proxy. 

Comment 3

[Walter Mautner]

(In reply to comment #0) 
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) 
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) 
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 
>  
> When I start up firefox my homepage does not load and I get a "page not 
found" 
> error.  If I open tools/options/general/connection settings, click "OK", and 
> then press the home icon my homepage will load without a problem.  I don't 
know 
> the details of our automatic proxy file. 
>  
> Reproducible: Always 
> Steps to Reproduce: 
> 1. Set up automatic proxy configuration 
> 2. Start up firefox 
> 3. 
>  
> Actual Results:   
> It appears that the proxy information is not automatically loaded. 
>  
> Expected Results:   
> Load the proxy information and then load my homepage without a problem. 
 
This behavior appears to apply for the first opening with a URL as "homepage" 
when using the proxy is required. Try a local page (i.e. on your intranet) 
which is available without proxying, and it will work.  
Of course, later on, the same URL giving a timeout upon startup, will connect. 
While waiting for the timeout for, let's say, www.google.de, I found a 
lingering connection with netstat to the target host, using port 80 and 
"syn_sent", instead of a proxy connection. 
Therefore it is impossible to select a "outbound" homepage for our corporate 
users. 
 

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100022 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

V/dupe. This was supposed to be duped to bug 208828, please let me know if that
bug needed a better description.