Upgrade StorageZotero 5 proxy configuration via pac file, failure to authenticate (regression?)
Report ID: 276379263
With the Zotero 4 standalone, I was able to use zotero with proxies configured automatically through a pac file.
This does not seem to be the case anymore with zotero 5.
At startup zotero 5 standalone does not ask to authenticate to the proxy even if the about:config reports the same proxy configuration that was working in Zotero 4 standalone.
Through firefox and the zotero 5 connector I cannot save pdf files from sites that need to be accessed through the proxy.
With the Zotero 4 standalone, I was able to use zotero with proxies configured automatically through a pac file.
This does not seem to be the case anymore with zotero 5.
At startup zotero 5 standalone does not ask to authenticate to the proxy even if the about:config reports the same proxy configuration that was working in Zotero 4 standalone.
Through firefox and the zotero 5 connector I cannot save pdf files from sites that need to be accessed through the proxy.
1) I have zotero 5 standalone configured as I used to have zotero 4 standalone configured, namely with
Network.proxy.type = 2 (Proxy auto-configuration PAC)
Network.proxy.autoconfig_url pointing to my PAC file
signon.autologin.proxy = true
With this configuration, at startup zotero 4 standalone used to show me a dialog to authenticate with the proxy, zotero 5 does not.
2) I am using the zotero connector from firefox. Firefox has the same proxy setup above.
With firefox, that proxy setup allows me to download papers e.g. from ieeexplore just fine
However, when I press the "save to zotero" button, saving the paper data fails, and the zotero debug log shows that there is a missing authentication with the proxy. Hence, basically, zotero 5 seems to fail to open the authentication dialog for the proxy.
IMHO, this is a very serious issue, as most academic institutions use authenticated proxies to access paper repositories.
'http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/*',
'http://www.springerlink.com/*',
'http://www.sciencedirect.com/*',
'http*://www.scopus.com/*',
'http*://*.metapress.com/*',
'http*://www.worldscientific*',
'http*://*.webofknowledge.com/*',
'http*://link.springer.com/*',
'http*://*onlinelibrary.wiley.com/*',
'http*://iopscience.iop.org/*',
'http*://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org*',
'http*://epubs.siam.org/*'
all other sites go direct
In any case, with this setup, zotero asked for the proxy login at startup, sort of. For some reasons not all the invocations end up in asking for the proxy login... I'll test further to try to identify what prevents the authentication to happen in some cases.