Open Bug 638857 Opened 15 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Errors connecting to a proxy look too much like errors connecting to the website

Categories

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

defect

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People

(Reporter: briansmith, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-backlog])

It is difficult for users to diagnose proxy-related problems because the error page they get for a failed connection to the proxy is the same as the error they would get if they failed to connect to the website directly. We should tell the user that the error is due to a problem connecting to the proxy when the proxy connection fails.
Same problem here. The error message is wrong, and useful informations sent by the proxy are lost. What does the proxy says (Wireshark): ===================================== CONNECT docs.google.com:443 HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Host: docs.google.com HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Proxy-Connection: close Set-Cookie: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=n; Path=/ Connection: close Content-Length: 872 <HTML><HEAD> ... What does (french-)Firefox says: ================================ La connexion a été refusée par le serveur proxy Firefox est configuré pour utiliser un serveur proxy mais celui-ci n'accepte pas les connexions. - Vérifiez que les paramètres du proxy sont corrects ; - Contactez votre administrateur réseau pour vous assurer que le serveur proxy fonctionne. Poor translation: ================= Proxy Server Refused Connection Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections. - Is the browser's procy configuration correct? - Ask your network administrator to check that the proxy is working
Whiteboard: [necko-backlog]
Priority: -- → P1
Priority: P1 → P3

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: P3 → P5

Moving bug to Core/Networking: Proxy.

Component: Networking → Networking: Proxy
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