322385 - WPAD: Auto-Detect Proxy not working until MIME type set

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Networking: Proxy, defect, P5)

Description

[Joseph William Baker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

http://wpad/wpad.dat  should be loaded and run to set the default proxy settings and it fails.

Even specifying the url doesn't work.

If I manually set the values it does work.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I expect the browser to load http://wpad.nelfc.com/wpad.dat then run the javascript then plug in the values and have the browser begin useing the proxy server.

Comment 1

[Joseph William Baker]

After adding in the mimetype in apache's configurations this started working as expected.

However on Windows firefox clients 1.0.7 and 1.5 there wasn't an issue with acting on the wpad.dat file.

Here's what I added to apache's mime type listings.

application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig dat

I don't know whether this should be closed or not.

Keep up the great work!
-Joe Baker

Comment 2

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

I'd put this down to server misconfiguration.

Comment 3

[benc]

I wasn't aware of this problem, it might need to be documented....

I'm going to reopen this, for now.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Moving bug to Core/Networking: Proxy.