Firefox 3 -> Proxy - Authentication Popup

[stefan_koehler]

Hello SDN-community,

i am using Firefox 3.0.3 and i got a really strange behaviour.

I am sitting behind a proxy and getting a proxy authentication box everytime i call a link or site. It happens in the sdn form as well as on the sdn blogs. This problem only occurs on sdn.sap.com.

My colleagues have the same problem. Is this a known problem on the sdn site?

I don't think that this is a general firefox bug, because the other sites are working (for example like service.sap.com or any other site)

If the proxy authentication box pops up, i can see that the site "ssl.google-analytics.com" is calling (in the status bar). Everytime it hangs at "ssl.google-analytics.com" and trys to authenticate. Maybe this is the problem.

Regards

Stefan

[David]

Hi Stefan,

You can get rid of that popup by adjusting the Firefox settings. In Tools>Options and then the Security tab, there is a button for Warning Messages > Settings. There you can select or deselect warning messages to appear under different conditions such as moving encrypted to non encrypted sites. The Google thing is a javascript mechanism embedded in the pages to provide information to Google who produce use statistics. The connection for the statistics is what causes you to see that popup now based on your current security settings.

Best Regards,

David

[stefan_koehler]

Hello David,

thanks for your answer. I have deselected all security warnings, but the popup still appears.

I have traced the calls with Live HTTP Headers and here is the result of it:

https://ssl.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=1.3&utmn=325590455&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1280x1024&utms...?threadID=1086004&tstart=0&utmac=UA-2306548-1&utmcc=__utma%3D33188028.1141739549.1193746837.1223983767.1223984073.958%3B%2B__utmz%3D33188028.1223973009.956.734.utmccn%3D(referral)%7Cutmcsr%3Dforums.sdn.sap.com%7Cutmcct%3D%/community [original link is broken]%7Cutmcmd%3Dreferral%3B%2B
GET /__utm.gif?utmwv=1.3&utmn=325590455&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1280x1024&utmsc=32-bit&utmul=de&utmje=1&utmfl=9.0%20%20r115&utmdt=Expert%20Forums%3A%20Firefox%203%20-%3E%20Proxy%20-%20Authentication%20...&utmhn=forums.sdn.sap.com&utmhid=2019026942&utmr=https://?threadID=1086004&tstart=0&utmac=UA-2306548-1&utmcc=__utma%3D33188028.1141739549.1193746837.1223983767.1223984073.958%3B%2B__utmz%3D33188028.1223973009.956.734.utmccn%3D(referral)%7Cutmcsr%3Dforums.sdn.sap.com%7Cutmcct%3D%/community [original link is broken]%7Cutmcmd%3Dreferral%3B%2B HTTP/1.1
Host: ssl.google-analytics.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Accept: image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: 
Cookie: BCSI-CS-82B0AD7F9DF21938=2
Proxy-Authorization: NTLM TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAHAAAAAYABgAiAAAAAoACgBIAAAADgAOAFIAAAAQABAAYAAAAAAAAACgAAAABYKIogUBKAoAAAAPQgBSAE8AUwBFAGsAbwBlAGgAcwB0AGUAQwBPAEIATAA1ADQANwA4AKpZxzfGyFeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHoxlbNLr7KO2mFvz26PmwJOYQ3KnSg==
HTTP/1.x 407 Proxy Authentication Required
Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Proxy-Connection: close
Set-Cookie: BCSI-CS-82B0AD7F9DF21938=2; Path=/
Connection: close
Content-Length: 904

As you can see the call of https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ requires a Proxy Authentication, but it doesn' matter if i enter a correct username/password.. it doesn't work.

Regards

Stefan

[David]

Hi Stefan,

Try doing going to the site and navigating with a computer outside of your corporate network. It may be a block done at the corporate proxy level due to privacy concerns with Google Analytics.

Best Regards,

David

[stefan_koehler]

Hello David,

i have already tried this and it works. It also works with the IE through our proxy, but with Firefox 3 (3.0.3) it doesn't work.

Am i the only one who have this problem?

Regards

Stefan

[David]

Hi Stefan,

You are the first to mention it. I have FF 3.0.3 on an old Presario 7000 with XP Pro and don't have this problem when navigating around the site using it. When you mentioned that your colleagues also had this problem, combined with the fact that I don't, it made me guess it was a corporate network issue.

I'm stumped at this point. Maybe someone else can offer a suggestion.

Sorry

David