301206 - "check for updates..." does not work when a proxy is required.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 301322

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Firefox/1.0+

When the updated port is not allowed for direct connections, the update does not
work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a firewall that blocks direct connection and have a HTTP proxy running
that allows to connect to any port.
2. change proxy setting to use the proxy
3. optionally restart firefox (does not change a thing)
4. select help->check for updates

Actual Results:  
the dialog is not finishing

Expected Results:  
updates information is retrieved.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Related to bug 259429 ?

Comment 2

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

maybe the cause for bug 259429 .

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

see also bug 301322

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

Alexey: Does your proxy server require you to login?

Comment 5

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

No, it does not. The situation is that our firewall allows "direct" connection
only to few blessed ports and for all other ports I have to use HTTP proxy. Even
though I have the proxy configured, automatic update does not work.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

Alright, then this is probably a duplicate of bug 301322.  We will be using
standard ports when this feature goes live for real :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301322 ***

Comment 7

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

It does not matter what ports are used for updates, it should work via proxies.

Comment 8

[Darin Fisher]

OK, can you please generate a HTTP log using the instructions here then:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

You can use any nightly build of Firefox to generate this log.  Then please
attach the log file to this bug so that I can see why the update service
requests are failing.  Thanks!

Comment 9

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

Attachment: HTTP log

Now the result is 404. Used build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050803
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 10

[Darin Fisher]

Hrmm.... the log file indicates that we are attempting a HTTP CONNECT request to
route SSL traffic via the firewall on port 8711.  However, the firewall does not
agree to allow this, as it returns:

  HTTP/1.0 403 Proxy denies fulfilling the request

So, if you can browse to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, then you will be able to
fetch updates when we switch back to using the default HTTPS port for software
update.

Hence, this is precisely a duplicate of bug 301322.  It will be resolved before
Firefox 1.5 beta.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301322 ***

Comment 11

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

You are correct.