M17 build, Windows NT 4.0 service pack 5. Bug 20145 not fixed in M17. If i set the config. to "direct to the internet" the browser tries to resolve the URL I entered. It fails as I have no direct connection to the internet now. When I set the auto configuration with the details of my Netscape 4.7 browser nothing happens. I suspect 20145 is not fully fixed, regards Chris Beere

I don't think your report is particularly clear my first impression was you were expecting proxy autoconfig to work when you had it set to direct connection to the internet which of course it won't. After a closer look I'd say you tried the following (correct me if I'm wrong): 1. Set proxy settings to direct connection - noticed that Mozilla tries to connect (throbber moving, etc) 2. Set proxy settings to auto config using the auto config URL as used by Netscape 4.x. Try to visit a site and no activity occurs in the browser whatsoever. I've actually just tried setting a proxy using auto config and I get absolutely no response from the browser. I'll attach the .pac file for your enjoyment and I'll confirm this bug. This is also Windows NT (no idea what service pack) using build 2000081508.

A strange side effect of this bug is that it also stops the mail folders appearing if you have your proxy auto config on and then start mail. You get a mail window with all three panes blank. If you then switch the setting back to direct connection you can thn close mail and reopen it successfully with all the folders in place. It might be worth spinning this mail problem off as a separate bug but I'll leave that to whoever it gets assigned to. I've also reproduced the bug on a recent Mac build so changing OS/platform to All

See also Bug 20145

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Any new info on this one? Were getting a lot of new incoming bugs mentioning it.

This is a note for my attachment 10 [details]/15/00 18:02. The attached file is our corporate auto-config file that does not work with M18. A URL pww.philips.com should not go through the proxy, whereas www.philips.com should go through the proxy. A URL pww.lighting.philips.com should not through the proxy, but www.lighting.philips.com should go through the proxy. With M18, using the autoconfig file attached, the browser seems to hang after reload; it will not visit new URLs. (the autoconfig URL is http://pixs00.peap.psg.philips.com:8081/pixs.pac )

Above commentary means that I don't know how to manually configure the proxy to work properly, because telling the proxy to ignore '.philips.com' won't work for the 'www.*.philips.com' sites, which need to go through the proxy. If this auto-config bug is not fixed, I can't use M18 on our corporate intranet. If someone can give me a setting to use the manual proxy config, much appreciated, otherwise, I suggest this become a P2 or P1 bug.

Same as bug 53080, I think.

Hi. I have Mozilla M18 ID Build 2000091312 in win95. Today in my university arrange a Proxy server using Squid 2.3 Stable 4.0 in linux mandrake 6.1. For this configuration i need a change my browser preferences in advanced proxies -> automatic proxy configuration: proxy.upb.edu.co/config.pac. After that, my mozilla don´t working. For this reason this report I need use a Nestcape 4.6 with this configuration in proxy. For me this problem is CRITICAL. Thanks for helping. Excuse me for my few english.

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