Issue 227288 in chromium: Add an option to disable marking of proxies as bad

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Status: Untriaged
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Labels: Type-Feature Pri-2 Cr-Internals-Network-Proxy OS-All Cr-Enterprise

New issue 227288 by ero...@chromium.org: Add an option to disable marking
of proxies as bad
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227288

For more context see comment 36:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=101317#c36

Chrome has heuristics to determine when a proxy seems to not be working
well, and will de-prioritize it.

However when this happens incorrectly, or too aggressively, it can cause
problems. This is particularly a problem in enterprise, since the proxy
list may be outside of the user's control.

It would be convenient in these cases to have a way to disable chrome
marking proxies as bad, and try them in order each time.

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Comment #1 on issue 227288 by wyd...@gmail.com: Add an option to disable

marking of proxies as bad
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227288

You can do this in IE with the BadProxyExpiresTime registry entry by
setting it's value to 0. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2551554. I've
checked and we set this value to 120 in our environment which means a proxy
IE marks as bad will be retried after 2 min.
We don't see many bad proxy issues with IE, just with Chrome I'm afraid.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Available
Owner: ---
Cc: ero...@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3 Fixit-Net

Comment #4 on issue 227288 by mme...@chromium.org: Add an option to disable

marking of proxies as bad

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227288

Eric: Worth throwing in the fixit pile? Seems like if we ever switched to
using IE's proxy settings, we should grab IE's value for this, too.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: Enterprise-Triaged

Comment #6 on issue 227288 by atwi...@chromium.org: Add an option to

disable marking of proxies as bad

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227288

From the enterprise standpoint, *always* trying the enterprise proxies
would be the correct behavior (never mark them as bad). Can't really
comment on the utility of making this behavior configurable for
user-supplied proxies.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 227288 by mme...@chromium.org: Add an option to disable

marking of proxies as bad
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227288

I'm not sure that's right - having every request go through a long timeout
is a really bad behavior, even for enterprise users. Google's configured
proxy had that problem at one point, and it was really unpleasant.