310608 - localhost and 127.0.0.1 seem to be proxied by default now

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ivan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 

When I enter "http://localhost" or "http://127.0.0.1" in the address line, 
Mozilla goes out to the proxy, even if 127.0.0.1 and/or localhost are 
explicitly put on the exclusion list. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http://localhost on address line and press ENTER
2. Add "localhost" to Tools->Options->General->Connection Settings->No Proxy For
3. Type http://localhost on address line and press ENTER

Actual Results:  
Firefox contacts configured proxy server with "GET <my-real-ip-address>" 
request.
If proxy server responds with a page, this page is shown.
If proxy server does not respond (e.g. no proxy server on specified port) 
Firefox displays message "the connection was trefused when attempting to 
contact the proxy server you have configured. Please check your proxy settings 
and try again"

Expected Results:  
Go to 127.0.0.1:80 directly and request the page

This happened in 1.0.6. I upgraded to 1.0.7, but it did not help.

Comment 1

[Olaf van der Spek]

I think for 127/8 and everything that resolves to 127/8 the proxy should not be
used.

Comment 2

[Gustavo Fuhr]

I had the same problem ..., firefox only stores cookies if the URL string doesn't contains localhost ...

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response