44844 - Doesnt work through http-based proxy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87394

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect, P3)

Description

[geek]

Im a linux desktop user in an nt-network, so the only proxy is at port 80. web-
browsing through the mozilla proxy works fine, but chatzilla, ftp, everything
else ends up dead. I can partly understand why, but I assumed that mozilla was
logging on the proxy since I get the official request for it. If irc cant be
transported through a nt proxy, or ftp for that matter then what solutions are
there?
<rant>
nt--
</rant>
thanks..

Comment 1

[Peter "jag" Annema]

I doubt you have proxy software installed which proxies IRC traffic.

Perhaps you can provide some details on which version of mozilla you are using,
and what kind of proxy software is installed?

Also, I suggest you read the bug reporting guidelines over at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html.

Comment 2

[fig\tree]

sounds like behavior is caused by proxy server configuration.
Mozilla isn't the problem here.

Marking as INVALID.

Comment 3

[David Krause]

A port 80 http proxy can generally only do http traffic.  There are proxies for
just about any protocol there is, including irc proxies.

Verified

Comment 4

[Samuel Sieb]

Reopening.  I think this should be possible.  It appears to be merely a matter
of connecting to the proxy and sending "CONNECT server:port HTTP/1.0\n\n" to it.
 See http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/ssh-https-tunnel for a perl script that
does it.  I haven't found specific info on https proxies yet.

Comment 5

[simon annear]

Using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050302

In reply to original bug - ftp proxy works fine

would be nice if chatzilla could use an http proxy

Comment 6

[Tim Martin]

> Reopening.  I think this should be possible.  It appears to be merely a matter
> of connecting to the proxy and sending "CONNECT server:port HTTP/1.0\n\n" to it.
>  See http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/ssh-https-tunnel for a perl script that
> does it.  I haven't found specific info on https proxies yet.
Bug 87394 and this seem to be dupes of each other.
And yes, it is quite possible.  :) I manually edited the javascript files
chatzilla uses to connect; it took less than 10 lines of (very inelegant) code
to get very basic functionality.  I posted the altered code in the same Bug
87394; so if anyone really needs this capability it might be worth your while
checking it out.  (I've only tried it with the one HTTP proxy I have access to,
for all I know there could be weird issues with some.)

Comment 7

[Tim Freedom]

Could someone comment on this bug. A patch in the form of bug-87394 is noted,
but that was back in March (some 6 months ago). Can this patch be looked over,
modified to use the mozilla's actual http proxy setting values and commited ?

For those of us behind these pesky proxies, this is rather urgent.

Thanks.

Comment 8

[James Ross]

Would you like to suggest how we decide what to do?

Currently, ChatZilla does no proxy work except to tell Mozilla to "use whatever
proxy is needed for irc: URLs". Unless there is a PAC file, this will just cause
the SOCKS proxy to be used if set, or a direct link otherwise.

The main problem with adding HTTP Proxy support is deciding how to control it.
Obviously, we can get the values from the HTTP proxy settings easily enough, but
we must then make a decision between using Whatever-Mozilla-Wants, or using
these HTTP proxy settings ourselves.

There is also the slight issue that everyone seems to be giving different names
to the same things, as bug 87394 shows.

I will put this bug on my radar once I get 0.9.68.6 out (which is due any week
now). It may take a little bit to actually understand all the various options
involved here, though. :)

Comment 9

[James Ross]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87394 ***