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[Mac] Can't authenticate with HTTPS proxy set, on [1.0.1]

[Mac] Can't authenticate with HTTPS proxy set, on [1.0.1]

I use Spotify desktop on Mac, behind a HTTP proxy.  After today's update, I can no longer authenticate with Facebook, or directly using Spotify U/P, with the proxy set. 

 

My company firewall is actually a HTTP proxy, not HTTPS, so until today (for the past year or so), I typically set proxy type in the Spotify preferences to "HTTPS", with the correct host & port.  Then, I edit the file "~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/prefs", to delete the "s" from the proxy protocol.  I then re-open Spotify to load the file.

 

See example of my prefs file:

core.flash_version=16
autologin.username="695xxx974"
network.proxy.addr="proxy:8080@http"
autologin.blob="H45BxxxxxxqBP3Ul/NM2f7SHleAqortflDDjSyX0GcIjIrSNJYO1DOVD4lnhJ8UDvBpsBMVIDjEePvX/49tSP4EqC1w9Id4inx30m1Lftkpv8cyJxxxxxxxxxxxxx1IDBLU/Kn8s/W15PyAns9c/d4BNYpnWcp6vGIXitlKhoqkpmKshsNgKawNxDk9HiV5eondnS9r6y0MHWNH5sYDZXJi2XlunsIHCS6YE8oGY0QaM44Yvy77PNk8z3afIpUpWy4cTBRRo8WKYa+N77KxCG3AqyqPpqZG09ZumpieTzeBcWS9dbbD2Pxwpa7DO1ZCIM6rWTpDEsXjHAuz7GtI="
language="en"
network.proxy.mode=2
core.csrf_tokens="*.facebook.com|39f96c364fxxxxxxccbfcffb|634xxxx83|*.spotify.com|7b43acead043413f0c5de78c08a46a21|739xxxx46"
core.incognito.start_time=1425925465
core.clock_delta=0

 

With this most recent update, it seems that this file is not being read, because the facebook auth redirect is failing with error:  "Spotify desktop client communication failed.", and username/password auth is failing with error "No internet connection detected".  

 

Both are able to reach the internet, if I leave proxy settings as-is, but swap to an internet connection that does not require them.

 

Please help--this is a blocker for me.

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Since I created the issue, I'm fairly well positioned to judge when I see it as resolved.

I totally understand what you're reporting in terms of the grayed-out preferences, though I'm not seeing that.

Since that's a new (adjacent) topic, how about you create that ticket yourself.
BR

doesn't work for me, 1.0.6 doesn't resolve the issue. Cannot use spotify with http proxy at work. Windows version WORKS. Spotify on mac worked with old "http" trick and now stop to work since 1.0.3 if I remember well.

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