281482 - Automatic proxy doesn't always work

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041230
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041230

I tried to open a page on the intranet of my lab from my machine at home, but
the connection couldn't be performed. Mozilla was configured to use "Automatic
proxy configuration URL". Manual proxy configuration was working. When I
switched back to "Automatic proxy configuration URL", same problem: no
connection. When I clicked on "Reload", it worked again (thus the problem isn't
in my proxy.pac file, which hadn't changed since I started Mozilla).

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Bug 112935 could be related (Mozilla uses your manual proxy to load your pac file).
Reporter: Where are you loading the .pac file from? Can it be reached without a
proxy?

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

Bug 112935 isn't related: my .pac file is loaded locally via the web server
installed on the machine. It can be reached whether the .pac file is used or not
for this connection (the .pac file says: always DIRECT, except for the domain of
my lab).

Comment 3

[Vincent Lefevre]

This bug has just occurred once again.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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