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by mike-cardwell 5300 days ago
On that page you'll notice it mentions "request-headers". That was in FF4 and FF5, but was removed in FF6 because of something I reported.

The headers sent in the report included "Proxy-Authorization", so it was possible to steal web proxy credentials by forcing a policy violation on your site. Chromes implementation didn't include the headers from the start. For more info:

https://grepular.com/Mozilla_Security_Bug_Reveals_Web_Proxy_...

And the original report (which was recently "unclassified"):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664983