[tor-bugs] #6733 [Firefox Patch Issues]: Patch Firefox to allow addons to set SOCKS username+password per request

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#6733: Patch Firefox to allow addons to set SOCKS username+password per request
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 Reporter:  mikeperry             |          Owner:  ben     
     Type:  enhancement           |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  major                 |      Milestone:          
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues  |        Version:          
 Keywords:  interview             |         Parent:  #3455   
   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by ben):

 > * Test: with a SOCKS V4 and a SOCKS V5 proxy that supports usernames.

 Took me a while (2h) to get the test environment installed and working.
 Tried to install dante-server, failed to start with linker error, broken
 deb package.
 Compiled ssocksd <http://ssocks.sourceforge.net> from source, and tested
 that with SOCKS V5 username and password, with curl and Firefox.
 Found a bug in the code, there's something very strange with the combined
 write/read buffer mData / mDataLength, it wasn't reset properly. I fixed
 one instance, but there is another problem, because it doesn't read the
 username response, my function is never called. Need to debug.

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