On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Daniel Falk
<daniel-pol...@mbx.zapto.org> wrote:
> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Eric Radman <the...@eradman.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15:06 Fri 02 Jan , Daniel Falk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> If I type in a single word in the Firefox address bar, normal behavior
>>>> is for Firefox to automatically complete the url if the domain exists or
>>>> do a search if it doesn't (Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" by default). I
>>>> like this feature and have come to rely on it, however Polipo breaks
>>>> it. It appears to be due to the fact that Polipo won't report this as a
>>>> non-existing domain. So all I get is a generated page from Polipo
>>>> instead.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to achieve the functionality I had previously? If not,
>>>> could something be put in to fix this?
>>>>
>>> Does Firefox work the same way when using any other HTTP proxy? This
>>> doesn't sound like a feature that a proxy inhibits or supports.
>>>
>>
>> The problem is in Firefox. I didn't even realise Firefox supported
>> this feature, I've used polipo for so long.
>>
>> The KDE browser Konqueror manages to do it when using polipo.
>> Presumably it picks up on the distinct error code (504) that polipo
>> returns for "host not found".
>>
>> Since you're interested, perhaps you could file a bug against Firefox.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Alan
>>
> Ok, I went to go file a bug and I found the original bug report (
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2875 ). It is from 1998!
>
> If it hasn't gotten fixed by now, it's not likely to. But I think the
> main problem is that there is no clear resolution on how to fix it.
> Polipo returns a 504, and other proxies return different codes. Is it
> impossible for a proxy to return a "host not found" DNS response instead
> of or in addition to an HTTP response?
>
> Also: squid allows for a workaround in that you can configure the error
> page. Thus, a custom error page can give a link to the "I'm Feeling
> Lucky" or whatever. Polipo doesn't allow for this, does it?
>
> Thanks!
> Daniel
One of my colleagues suggested that usually the developers at
Mozilla prioritize the bugs by the interest of the users in it. And
the interest could be shown by voting the bug or by adding yourself to
the CC list... What I've just did... :)
So, if you would like to "help" the development team, maybe we all
should just vote the bug... :) :)
Ciprian Crăciun.
P.S.: I'm not being childish, but I think that a bug like this
could have been easily solved in the last 10 years... Right on the
spot I would say that there could be a simple solution like the
following one (I know it's a hack): if the proxy responds with a
status other than 100, 200, or 300, and inside the body there is the
regular expression ^.*<h1>.*host not found .*</h1>.*$, meaning, the
request contains the text "host not found", which all the proxies
do...
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