308479 - RFE: Need a window with information about the connection, proxy used and other details

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, enhancement)

Description

[db]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I don't even know if this is possible. With that reservation made:

It would be very useful if Firefox (and other apps in the Mozilla family) could
display information about the connection used. Example of such information would
be (external/public) ip used for this request, which proxy used for this page
and similar.

I currently debug a quite complex PAC-script, which uses two SSH socks tunnels
and two regular http-proxies to access two intranets and the public internet.

When I get error messages it would be very helpful if I could see that Firefox
used the socks proxy on port 1080 when it downloaded the html of a certain page
(and possibly another socks proxy for an object on the page if that applies) and
that the server sees it as the client uses IP 123.45.67.89.

Reproducible: Always




I think this information could be available through the Page info window,
something like:

Name		Type		Address			Proxy		Ext. IP
pic.gif		image/gif	http://a.b/pic.gif	localhost:88	85.12.34.5
pic.jpg		image/jpeg	http://a.b/pic.jpeg	10.12.4.5:8080	85.85.67.6

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Since this is won't be useful to most users, it's probably wontfix and you
should be asking for an extension instead.

Comment 2

[db]

Didn't know I can request extensions. Which is the right place to suggest new extensions?

Thanks

Comment 3

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

You might check MozillaZine's forums at http://forums.mozillazine.org/ or an appropriate Mozilla newsgroup (http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html) to see if theres any interest in developing such an extension. 

Confirming this, request seems to be a valid one, even if probably wontfix.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Tested in Firefox 22 Nightly. We now have a Web Console that can show network details for the loading of resources. It doesn't have all of the information that you have requested, but is sufficient for most purposes.

An add-on to extend this behavior sounds like a good idea.