From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040904 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: I have a .pac file that allows me to look at web sites at work over a secure ssh tunnel. The file looks like this: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (dnsDomainIs(host, ".WHATEVER.com") || dnsDomainIs(host, ".WHEREVER.com")) return "PROXY localhost:3128"; else return "DIRECT"; } (I've changes the real domain names). This worked fine on an earlier version of firefox I was using, but for the new version that ships with FC3-test2, it doesn't get used at all - request for host names ending in .WHATEVER.com or .WHEREVER.com are handled DIRECT instead. Actually, it looks like this file is being completely ignored, because if I replace the "DIRECT" setting with "PROXY localhost:1234" (which is a pointer to a proxy that doesn't actually exist) then it doesn't give an error when I try to load regular (i.e. non-work) web pages. The earlier version of firefox I used was the 0.9.3 version from the dag rpm repository. I had to blow away the .mozilla directory from that version in order to get the FC3-test2 version to work properly (but that's for another bug report) and I noticed this problem when I was recreating my setup. If I do a manual connection and tell it to use localhost, port 3128 for all HTTP requests, it works fine, but I obviously don't want to see all my web requests going through work... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-0.9.3-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a .pac file similar to the above that just points at a non-existent proxy. 2. Tell firefox to use this file. 3. Try access a web page. Actual Results: Web page will actually load, despite the fact that the proxy doesn't exist. Expected Results: It should give an error about not being able to contact the proxy. Additional info:
Crap - my bad. I had a braino in the configuration dialog box. I was using the pathname raw, without "file://" stuck in front of it. Apologies. Much embarrassment.