Closed
Bug 74546
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
SOCKS : V5 implementation broken (no connectivity)
Categories
(Core :: Networking, defect)
Core
Networking
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VERIFIED
FIXED
mozilla1.0
People
(Reporter: benc, Assigned: gagan)
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Details
(Keywords: testcase)
OVERVIEW: While helping bbaetz try to get Gopher over SOCKS to work this weekend, we found that many builds do not seem to have SOCKS working. To my knowledge, I am aware of all SOCKS issues, which you could roughly find a summary of at: http://www.packetgram.com/pktg/mozilla/bugzilla/socksdigest.html The big problem is that it seems that ALL milestone releases fail to make successful SOCKS connetions. This is NOT the partial connecctivity problem described in bug 48357. I am using a SOCKS V5 compliant server from NEC, and it works with AIM and NIM's SOCKS V5 mode. I also have started gathering packet trace data, which I will add when I get more time. STEPS: 1- Create new profile 2- Set proxy to "manual" and enter a SOCKS proxy hostname and port. 3- Open new window (or restart browser). Observe the home page fails to load w/ error: "The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.news.com." EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: SOCKS connection should transparently occur and load the page. NOTES: Entering a http proxy forces the client to select the http proxy and connect. Removal of the SOCKS proxy entry allows the client to connnect. Windows, Netscape 6.0 (RTM). I'll be adding reports of other builds later today.
cc'ing Jeremy-- he is so looking forward to commenting on this bug :) Knock yourself out Jeremy.
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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Here are the verbose snoop traces. A failed connection: http://www.packetgram.com/pktg/mozilla/bugzilla/74546/failure.txt A quick look shows that after the three-way handshake, packet 4 comes from the client and says: TCP: .... ...1 = Fin I <think> this was a trace of Mozilla 0.8, it might be of NS 6.0.1, but they seem to have the same behavior. A working connection: http://www.packetgram.com/pktg/mozilla/bugzilla/74546/worksforme.txt You can see the 1st SOCKS packet (#4) does not "FIN" on the working connecction, instead it does a PUSH. TCP: .... 1... = Push Unfortunately, snoop recognizes the snoop connection via the port number, but was not kind enough to display the payload when in binary (so you can't see the handshake). I need to dig up the original .snoop files and post them as well. (thanks to bbaetz for pointing this out...)
QA to me. clarified subject.
QA Contact: tever → benc
Summary: SOCKS implemented but not working (no connectivity) → SOCKS - V5 implementation broken (no connectivity)
Comment 5•24 years ago
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I think everyone would be happier if SOCKS protocol support were included in 6.5. Jeff Hooker and Eclient have offered up their engineering and QA resources to help get this implemented. CC:ing Jeff and Eric Paczewitz on this bug. Please take a look at the bug history, so we can come to an agreement on work to be done. Perhaps a meeting is in order? ;)
Need to see if this will be a large landing. If so, we have to plan this landing with chofmann.
Comment 7•24 years ago
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Has anyone got real packet traces for this (showing binary data)? For all we know, it could just be that particular server not liking the fact that we don't (according to the comments in the code) advertise supporting the mandatory authentication scheme (GSSAPI) (or, in fact, any authentication scheme) Since this was checked into the tree, it must have worked at some point, on at least one type of server. benc - you verified bug 16103 (the "support SOCKS" bug) on Mar 12, but the url you give just gives a file not found error. What server did you use for that?
CONFIRMED: broken on commercial Mac (2001-04-30-??-Mtrunk) setting platform to all/os to all. loeb: lets call this meeting ASAP. bbaetz: I might have the full packet traces, I will look for them. as an external contributor, I never thought anyone would ask for the original snoop files for an article like this. Based on my recollection, I do not think there is additional useful data in those traces. At this stage, somebody needs to find out why we tell the stack to FIN out the connection. The URL moved to: http://www.packetgram.com/pktg/docs/net/snoop/socksclientversion.html This was working in the commercial Win32 daily builds. When I was in IM QA, I had configured an evaluation copy of NEC eBorder. I used several builds, and actually dogfooded off of SOCKS-only for a day or two. I also used netstat to verify that this worked. That server was available on the public net, and I hijacked it at night to do the verification. That server (socks.packetgram.com) is currently down (trial expired), and kerz has inherited the job of getting a valid license.
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
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Comment 9•24 years ago
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<putting on my hat as the sysadmin of *.packetgram.com, which provides test servers for mozilla.org> The eBorder server mentioned above was available because it was an evaluation copy. The licensed copy may or may not be deployed publicly (because IM QA does not have a testing requirement for a publicly available SOCKS server). I am currently investigating alternatives for network standards qa (tever + me doing my day job + other contributors). It is a reasonably well-known fact that there are SOCKS servers available on the AOL/Netscape internal network. Yet the case remains for a publicly available SOCKS server. 1- external contributors need it. bbaetz has mentioned to me on more than one occassion that the lack of a publicly-available, working SOCKS server has blocked his development of gopher support of SOCKS. 2- the test servers should reside publically. Netscape could consider giving limited network access to individuals that really need access to existing internal servers. Presumably, this is administratively difficult and not cost effective. Legally, this could be problematic if someone worked for a competitor in a day job and contributed at night. 3- Simple access to a SOCKS V5 server is unsufficient for the testing needs of this project. Direct control is needed so the server is configured correctly for a given test. System level access is needed for analyzing complex problems (such as gathering the trace data mentioned above). Vendor technical support will be needed. NEC was kind enough to provide technical support for the evaluation copy, which answered several nagging questions about version interoperability. The general criteria for testing the browser SOCKS V5 implementation suggest that Netscape Proxy Server is the ideal candidate. 1- It does not support SOCKS V4. eBorder does, and version support is not configurable, which makes testing connections to single version-only server impossible. (This sounds irrational, but are discussed in the other version related bugs I have filed) 2- Administravia barriers are limited. Netscape Proxy Server 3.5 is already deployed on proxy.packetgram.com, which is publicly available. I will be testing the SOCKS server as soon as time permits, and will report back here.
Comment 10•24 years ago
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I found http://www.inet.no/dante/, which is a BSD-style licenced socks server - I'll try it in a couple of hours. What was the date that you know that this last worked? I want the binary data so that we can see what the client and server are telling each other. Note that the trace can work both ways - I can trace it (and did so earlier, but didn't save the traces), as long as I have somewhere to connect to. Re point 2 - I've heard rumours of a bandwidth limiting external proxy server that people with cvs accounts have access to. I don't know anything more about it though, or whether it actually exists.
Comment 11•24 years ago
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OK, I'm now using dante locally as a socks (v5) server without any problems in mozilla. So socks is working, at least in the general case.
Comment 13•24 years ago
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Between 89206, which is fixed, and 65583, for which I have a patch ready, these SOCKS 5 issues should be fixed.
Comment 14•24 years ago
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Should be fixed by fix for 65583.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 15•22 years ago
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VERIFIED: This has worked for a while, including Netscape 7.0 and a couple versions of Mozilla 1.0RCx
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Keywords: testcase
QA Contact: benc → socksqa
Summary: SOCKS - V5 implementation broken (no connectivity) → SOCKS : V5 implementation broken (no connectivity)
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