285377 - PAC: Failover not working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Dave M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: ver 0.9.0.0

we are using a .pac file for automatic proxy configuration that contains 
scripting to allow failover to a second proxy server if the primary one fails. 
When the primary proxy - which runs Novell Bordermanager - fails the Firefox 
clients do not get referred on to the second proxy server. Clients using 
Internet Explorer do not have this problem and if we manually input the second 
proxy server address into Firefox settings we can access the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure client to use .pac file for automatic proxy config
2.Access URL and then fail the primary proxy
3.Attempt to access the URL
Actual Results:  
Unable to access the URL


Expected Results:  
Successfully access the URL via second proxy server

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please attach the pac File (using the "create new Attachment" link)

Comment 2

[Dave M]

Attachment: Copy of Pac File

pac file as requested

Comment 3

[benc]

I think there are several open bugs on this problem.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

Dave: What version of Firefox are you testing?

Comment 5

[Dave M]

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

please upgrade to the latest firefox 1.0.x release (1.0.3 at this time).  I
think you will find that the problem has been resolved.  If not, please let us know.