Proxy settings lost between sessions

[Ageless]

Comments: Posted by: jwright2 Date: 9:12 PM 11-20-2006 Every time BOINC manager exits and restarts it loses the proxy settings needed to run inside my corporate firewall. If BOINC is exited manually, the client_state.xml and client_state_prev.xml files contain the correct URL and port. On starting from login or restarting from an intentional exit, the proxy URL and port number are programatically changed and the client_state.xml file contains the new, incorrect URL and port number. BOINC operates correctly when the URL and port are correctly entered by means of either UI.

An obfuscated example of the change is: correct URL "proxyserver.mycompany.com" port 81, incorrect URL "proxy.mycompany.com" port 80. It may be coincidental, but the incorrect URL that appears is the hostname of the our network's automatic proxy configuration script (missing the rest of the file path to the script and with the wrong port number).

I will send any needed files or run appropriate diagnostics to aid whomever may attempt to resolve this error.

Posted by: jwright2 Date: 4:05 AM 11-21-2006 In addition to the symptoms listed below, when the laptop showing the errors is moved outside the corporate firewall, the proxy client continues to attempt to connect to the proxy server even though the client is shown as turned off in the GUI. This was verified with Wireshark. Because the proxy client is still active, no connection to BOINC servers occurs.

[Nicolas]

I'll close this if nobody reproduces it in a week.