97214 - Mac: standard proxy settings ignored [Internet Config]

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Newman]

On MacOS 9, there are Proxy settings in the OS-supplied "Internet" control panel
under the "Advanced" tab and the "Firewalls" item.  These settings are available
through the "Internet Config" API under MacOS, and the settings are switchable
with the location manager.

Mozilla ignores these settings which is very inconvenient when using a laptop
and moving between home (no proxies) and work (evil corporate proxies).

The "iCab" web browser (http://www.icab.de) correctly uses the OS-provided proxy
values and this shows up as a "Use standard proxy settings" radio button. 
Mozilla should do the same.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->networking ppl to triage. dupe?

Comment 2

[Chase Tingley]

Internet config support is bug 5721... I'm not sure if subsets of it are
normally spun off into their own bugs or not.  n.b this is the mac equivalent of
bug 66057.

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

5721 is sort of a meta bug, it appears. Per comments in bug 5721, these settings
should be live, I guess. An extra "follow os settings" option in the proxy
config panel, (which would be the default for new profiles on mac) sounds good,
for all platforms.

/me considers doing that at some point for unix at some point in the future.

Moving to gordon as the necko mac guy, ccing sdagley

Comment 4

[benc]

MacOS has usually had pretty detailed instructions on how to use various system
services. Does anyone know what the story is with this?

Comment 5

[Chris Newman]

Internet Config was a third party extension incorporated into MacOS, so Apple 
doesn't do as good a job documenting it as they should.

There's lots of good information on Internet Config here:
    http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/Config/

Here are various proxy settings of interest:

#define kICNoProxyDomains "\pNoProxyDomains"	/* STR# -- list of domains not to 
be proxied */
#define kICUseSocks "\pUseSocks"	/* Boolean */
#define kICSocksHost "\pSocksHost"	/* PString -- host.domain, remember that 
host.domain format allows ":port" and " port" */
#define kICUseHTTPProxy "\pUseHTTPProxy"	/* Boolean */
#define kICHTTPProxyHost "\pHTTPProxyHost"	/* PString -- host.domain */
#define kICUseGopherProxy "\pUseGopherProxy"	/* Boolean */
#define kICGopherProxy "\pGopherProxy"	/* PString -- host.domain, see note in 
Prog Docs */
#define kICUseFTPProxy "\pUseFTPProxy"	/* Boolean */
#define kICFTPProxyHost "\pFTPProxyHost"	/* PString -- host.domain */
#define kICFTPProxyUser "\pFTPProxyUser"	/* PString -- first level FTP proxy 
authorisation */
#define kICFTPProxyPassword "\pFTPProxyPassword"	/* PString -- scrambled, 
password for FTPProxyUser */
#define kICFTPProxyAccount "\pFTPProxyAccount"	/* PString -- second level FTP 
proxy authorisation */
#define kICUsePassiveFTP "\pUsePassiveFTP"	/* Boolean -- use PASV command for FTP 
transfers */

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

Apple's own page for IC is at [http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/
networkcomm/InternetConfig/Internet_Config/index.html]. (Note that it, too, refers to 
the same URL provided by Chris Newman above.)

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Whoops, sorry; wrong URL. See [http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/
networkcomm/InternetConfig/internetconfig.html].

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Er, never mind. Brain fart.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

Confirming.

Comment 10

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 97018 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[gordon]

Not strictly performance related, which is the focus of 0.9.7 for networking. 
Moving to 0.9.8.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

Moving Netscape owned 0.9.9 and 1.0 bugs that don't have an nsbeta1, nsbeta1+,
topembed, topembed+, Mozilla0.9.9+ or Mozilla1.0+ keyword.  Please send any
questions or feedback about this to [e-mail].  You can search for
"Moving bugs not scheduled for a project" to quickly delete this bugmail.

Comment 13

[Max Waterman]

This is a problem for Mac OS X (10.1.4) too, so changed OS to that since it's a
superset (I think)....ah, looks like I can't change that...

Confirm that this is very much a problem.

Since the proxy can be changed on the fly, without rebooting, mozilla should
cope nicely with the network changing from underneith it.

Thanks.

Max.

Comment 14

[benc]

Mac OS X is in bug 125995. The two versions need separate bugs b/c the intefaces
are different (plus we might want to take UNIX level prefs in X as well).

Comment 15

[benc]

gordon: do you really want to fix this for Mac OS 9?

Comment 16

[gordon]

Not necessarily, but I would like to make a decision and resolve the bug if
we're NOT going to fix it.

Comment 17

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 18

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

mac classic is no longer supported by Mozilla. Marking WONTFIX.

Comment 19

[benc]

VERIFIED/wontfix.