Issue 95881 - Proxy authentication dialogue fails to present - using proxy.pac proxy autoconfiguration file
Summary: Proxy authentication dialogue fails to present - using proxy.pac proxy autoco...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOO300m9
Hardware: Mac Mac OS X, all
: P4 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2008-11-05 17:09 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2013-01-29 21:42 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin 2008-11-05 17:09:56 UTC 
Squid caching proxy server authentication dialogue is required, but fails to present, when Mac OS X 10.5.5 is configured to 
use a proxy.pac proxy auto-configuration file.

The bug is evident with use of at least 
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/proxy.pac

System Preferences… | Network | (select interface) | Advanced… | Proxies | Configure Proxies | Manually 
with a proper manual configuration does result in presentation of the required authentication dialogue. 

(I have screen shots, on someone else's laptop, I'll aim to attach the images to this ticket when that laptop is next in my 
possession.)

= Bug = 

System Preferences… | Network | (select interface) | Advanced… | Proxies | Configure Proxies | Using a PAC file 
causes OOo to _not_ present the required dialogue; so 

* checking for updates can not occur†

and, presumably

* Internet-related functions elsewhere in the application suite will fail. 

FWIW: defocusing from OOo, applications such as Microsoft Office 2004, Microsoft Office 2008 and Adobe Reader for Mac 
OS X are similarly incompatible with use of proxy auto-configuration files of at least two institutions:
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/proxy.pac
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/proxy.pac

It should be great to have a resolution or explanation for this issue. 

† If behaviour of Microsoft and Adobe applications in the same situations are anything to go by, I'll estimate that an OOo 
check for updates may report that none are available even when there _is_ an update available.
Comment 1 Graham Perrin 2008-11-13 21:14:52 UTC 
> Microsoft Office 2004, Microsoft Office 2008 … proxy auto-configuration files

More accurately, I'm advised that Microsoft AutoUpdate "does not work with authenticating proxy servers". 

Is that the issue here?
Comment 2 zenshaolin 2009-10-28 10:37:52 UTC 
Hi,

Same trouble here. OOo 3.1.1 on Windows XP.
I use a proxy.pac proxy auto-configuration file, so I configured proxy settings
to "system".
And no dialogue box to authentify me.

So, OOo can't import pictures from website copy/paste, and it can't search for
update.