Bug#765100: iceweasel: auto proxy config only works with an IP, not URL for proxy

[Robert Solomon]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 24.8.1esr-1~deb7u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

We serve proxy information to clients on our network using a wpad.dat
file.  No problems through many versions of Firefox.  Testing
Iceweasel on Debian, I find that this is not working.  Investigation
show that Iceweasel only accepts proxyservers as an IP anddress not a
URL.  This is not the case in Firefox.

eg for my wpad.dat to work, the configuration server needs to be
specified as an IP, not a URL and in my wpad.dat, the server also
needs to be specified as a URL.

This wpad.dat snipit works:
if (shExpMatch(url, "http:*"))  return "PROXY 192.168.x.xxx:xxx";

This does not:
if (shExpMatch(url, "http:*"))  return "PROXY proxy.ourdomain.local:xxx";

DNS is set up and working properly for the client on the local network.
dig proxy.ourdomain.local and dig proxy both return the correct IP on
the client.

thanks,

Bob


-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled

Name: iTunes Application Detector
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
Package: rhythmbox-plugins
Status: enabled

Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so
Package: browser-plugin-gnash
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  browser-plugin 0.8.11~git20 amd64        GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player
ii  gnome-shell    3.4.2-7+deb7 amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  iceweasel      24.8.1esr-1~ amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  rhythmbox-plug 2.97-2.1     amd64        plugins for rhythmbox music playe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.3.2
ii  fontconfig          2.9.0-7.1
ii  libc6               2.13-38+deb7u4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  procps              1:3.3.3-3
ii  xulrunner-24.0      24.8.1esr-1~deb7u1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.0-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2
pn  mozplugger             <none>

Versions of packages xulrunner-24.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-4
ii  libc6                     2.13-38+deb7u4
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-3
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.8-1+deb7u4
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100.2-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libmozjs24d               24.8.1esr-1~deb7u1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages xulrunner-24.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0  0.28-6
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.24.5-2

-- no debconf information