Re: polipo, dns, and firefox

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Gabriel Kerneis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:19:49PM -0500, Daniel Falk wrote:
>> >>> 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.
>> [...]
>> 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!
>
> This works perfectly well for me, using Iceweasel (Debian's Firefox):
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122010 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Debian-3.0.5-1)
> along with the SwitchProxy extension.

Weird. I'm using IceWeasel too, version 3.0.4. I tried installing and
using SwitchProxy (1.4.1). But it still doesn't work. If I type e.g.
"cornflakes" into the addressbar while using my polipo proxy, I get a
504. If I disable the proxy, I get the expected automatic search and
it shows the Wikipedia page for cornflakes.

Alan

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