296445 - Auto-detect proxy settings doesn't work in latest Firefox release and trunk builds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 296163

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Manoj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+

Auto-detect proxy settings doesn't work since Firefox 1.0.3 (release and nightly
builds) - this is a regression since Firefox 1.0 when this functionality used to
work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable auto-detect proxy settings
2. navigate to http://www.mozilla.org


Actual Results:  
Firefox couldn't connect to the proxy auto-detect server to get proxy
information for the network.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should be able to connect to the internet by detecting proxy settings
automatically. This is a regression.

Comment 1

[Manoj]

Attachment: Log file with initial information on network resolution

This log file contains a trace of what Mozilla did while resolving
http://mail.yahoo.com with auto-detect proxy settings turned on. I set the
following env variables before starting Firefox from the same cmd window:
NSPR_LOG_MODULES=nsHttp:5,nsHostResolver:5
NSPR_LOG_FILE=C:\log.txt

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 296163 ***