96914 - Support customizing proxies

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(CCK Graveyard :: CCK-Wizard, enhancement)

Description

[bobj]

There have been some requests to support customizing proxies.

Comment 1

[Barrett Lindstrom]

Updating QA contact to jimmyu for half of the CCK bugs, while Bom-shik is gone.

Comment 2

[Shruti Vasudevan]

Attachment: Patch file for Proxy UI (this is only for thr UI)

Comment 3

[tao]

Comment on attachment 49537 [details]
Patch file for Proxy UI (this is only for thr UI)

r=tao

Comment 4

[Shruti Vasudevan]

Attachment: Patch: Modified Proxy UI (this is only for the UI)

Comment 5

[tao]

Comment on attachment 49843 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch: Modified Proxy UI (this is only for the UI)

r=tao

Comment 6

[Shruti Vasudevan]

Attachment: Patch: Backend for proxy customization

Comment 7

[tao]

Comment on attachment 50027 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch: Backend for proxy customization

r=tao

Comment 8

[Shruti Vasudevan]

Marking fixed.

Comment 9

[bobj]

Please test choosing "Automatic proxy configuration", but leave the URL blank,
and see what the browser does.  I'm worried this might cause a problem.

(The browser Preferences allows this too, so if there is a bug in CCK,
then there is probably a bug in the browser too.  The difference is that CCK
is setting up the default behavior...)

Comment 10

[Jimmy Uen]

Yes, choosing the "Automatic proxy configuration" and leaving the URL blank in
CCK cause problem with running the bits. The bit works fine with the initial
installation, but to restart the browser will not launch.
Running the same bit of sweetlou and changing the setting in Preference doesn't
have this problem. Restart the browser and it will launch and functional.

Comment 11

[Shruti Vasudevan]

What are the posiible solutions to overcome this error when the user chooses 
manual proxy configuration and automatic proxy configuration?

Comment 12

[bobj]

Opened new bug 101658 for the auto proxy URL problem.

We should test potential error cases for the manual proxy settings too.

For manual proxies, try combinations of blank hosts, blank ports and 0 ports,
and see if they cause problems in the browser.

Shruti and I quickly looked at the browser code and we ***think*** the code
is robust and treats null string hosts or 0 ports as direct.  Not sure what
happens if the port is a null string...  (The browser prefs, seem to set the port
values to 0 if you leave the port text field blank.)

Comment 13

[Jimmy Uen]

Verified CCK build 2001-10-01-09 include support for customize proxies