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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Polipo-users mailing list Polipo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/polipo-users
