Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > 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... :) :) > Agreed. I didn't see until now that you can vote for bugs. It only has 10 votes right now, which isn't very good. The highest voted bug has 646. > 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... >
From a development perspective, something seems wrong about searching for "Host not found", especially if the proxy doesn't respond in the English language. I just wish there were a separate HTTP status code for this. It looks as if the main problem, and why this bug has gone unanswered for so long, is that there's no clear-cut solution. Personally, I would have gone a different way with the solution, like have the browser attempt the search for certain status codes: 504 and potentially others. And if the search fails, don't display the search to the user i.e., pretend like you never tried to search. For what it's worth, I don't think it's such a bad idea to have the proxy attempt the search for you as well. Someone would just have to add it to polipo as an optional feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Polipo-users mailing list Polipo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/polipo-users
