315992 - Firefox and Talkback crash reporter:add FULL proxy support please.I'd failed to use few proxied configurations, details are inside.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36545

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[T3st3r]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

Talkback crash reporter is a great thing but as for me it looks like it lacks a proxy support a bit, so I'm was unable to report a dozen of crashes due to inability to use corporate proxy.This is sad since at least 6 crashes were not reported.

- Talkback not seems to request password for HTTP proxies requiring auth like Firefox itself does.
- Talkback and Firefox not seems to support Socks 5 with user\password authentication.And there is no even choice between Socks 4 and 5 in Talkback so I have no idea how to setup it to allow Talkback agent to use my Socks 5 proxy.

I can use either HTTP\HTTPS proxy with NTLM auth.Or Socks 5 with user\pass auth.Both configurations has faled though for Talkback:(.And I was unable to use user\password authenticated socks 5 with Firefox.So what about some REAL proxy support?Not just a useless "support" of proxies like it is done in Talkback.Also it would be great if you'll allow to specify proxy password for proxies in both Mozilla and Talkback during proxy configuration.Didn't I told that I'm preferring to supply credentials immidiately, not "on demand" if possible.

Let's mention, in modern world properly configured proxies want to get credentials so proxy support without passwords is quite useless.Because open proxies are simple abused so any REAL admin would set up proxy to restrict IPs and use authorisation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup socks 5 server which requires authentication(usual Socks 5 plaintext user\password for example).Try to use it in Talkback and Firefox.Take notice that this attempt has not suceeded... 
2.Try to use HTTP\HTTPS proxy which needs authorisation (NTLM proxy tested) with talkback.This about to fail too... 
3.
Actual Results:  
1) Firefox cannot use Socks 5 with auithentication by user\password.Can you imagine any non-idiotic administrator who will run socks 5 without user\password auth???
2) Talkback cannot be used with Socks 5 requiring password and with HTTP\HTTPS proxy requiring password.

In short, I was unable to use Talkback at all behind proxy.And I was not able to use Socks 5 proxy which wants to authenticate by user\password.

Expected Results:  
1) I should be able to supply passwords for proxies during proxy setup.For both Firefox and Talkback.
2) Socks 5 with authentication should be supported by Firefox
3) Full (Socks 4\5, HTTP\HTTPS) proxy support should also present in Talkback.And it should deal with proxy authentication as well as Firefox itself should.Othervice you will miss some crash reports.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

Sock5 auth is bug 122752
Talkback proxy auth is bug 36545

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36545 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

try http://www.socks.nec.com/Download/SocksCapDownload/index.asp