Mozilla 1.4 AutoProxy issues

[James Thomas]

Hi everyone

I have been working to get Mozilla 1.4 to work correctly lately on HP 11i and have run into some bumps.

Try using the AutoProxy configuration script with Mozilla 1.4 and it does not even try to resolve names. For our internal sites, there is no problem, but to access external sites thru our proxy, it does not work in any way shape or form.

This is a know bug (Bug30387) on bugzilla, however the fix that is listed does not work for the HP distro. The nsProxyAutoConfig.js file is not the same file as what the fix suggests. I am thinking that HP made some changes to the distro, but there is no fix that I have seen.

Has anyone else run into this problem? This functionality is required for this workstation.

[Rick Beldin]

HP didn't change the distro. HP ports Mozilla as is, with only minor changes to allow the product to run on HP-UX. Changes to packaging are about all that is done.

We have seen similar problem where autoproxy doesn't load on first attempt and that is under investigation.

[Hoefnix]

I even faced this problem with Mozilla 1.6 under Linux. So I don't think there is a correct fix.

I know the autoconfig will work but not for pac-scripts.

I use it on to different locations, at one location I am able to configure autmatic, in the other case I must do it manual.

Regards,
Peter

[Hoefnix]

Sorry, typo, I meant:
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I know the autoconfig will work but not for all pac-scripts.

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Regards,
Peter

[Rick Beldin]

This appears to be a defect in the Mozilla 1.4 branch, fixed in the 1.4.1, 1.5, and beyond branches.

Mozilla 1.5b changelog:

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5b/changelog.html

This referenced this bugzilla report:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215457

HP will be releasing Mozilla 1.6 in the near future, which should have the fix for this problem. Note that early releases of 1.6 may still have this, since the source fix doesn't appear that it was merged into the main branches until August 2003 or later.