322063 - choose VPN connection dialogue box pops up unexpectedly after loss of network

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Sometimes while navigating the net, my work place VPN connections dialoge box pops up and prompts me to choose one of my VPN connections. I then hit cancel becuase I am not trying to remotely log on to one of my machines. Sometimes the page I am trying to go to will load and sometimes I get the "page not found" message. Its not something that I can replicate because if I close the browser and then reopen it and then go to the page that was giving me the problem it has always loaded fine after restarting the firefox application. 

Reproducible: Sometimes




This causes somewhat of a security problem for me becuase I'm a developer some goverment contracts and the machines that I log on to open up a gateway to confidential information. I love this product but I can't afford to have anything going on in the background that is trying to communicate with these machines when I'm not expecting it. Is there any type of transaction logging that I can turn on so I may be able to self diagnose the problem when it occurs?

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Making this bug report public because hiding it doesn't protect users from attacks.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Search for 'logging' on http://www.mozilla.org/

Some hits:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/using-consoleservice.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/reference/html/prlog.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html

Comment 3

[benc]

Is the VPN software available in windows as a dialup connection? Take a look at the document I added to the URL field

Comment 4

[Jay]

I think I figured out what the problem is. In Internet Explorer there is a setting under the connections tab to dial a connection if the network connection is not present. The default is set to dial a connection if its lost. Firefox doesn't have an equivlent setting. My VPN connections fall under a dail up type connection. So what I think is happening is that I may have some sort of network gliche every once in a while and firefox is defaulting to dail a connection? I have played around with useing some of Firefox's different network connection types but I'm still running into the problem. I do alot of network and software type trouble shooting for a living, so let me know if I can be of anymore help.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jay, 

are IE settings not the default for other software using the PC? And there are no VPN settings to prevent auto reconnect (I thought there was)?

if still a problem please check bugzilla for an existing enhancement bug or problem bug.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response => incomplete