On Feb 16, 2008, at 6:00 AM, gerph wrote:

>
> Andy Grundman;269992 Wrote:
>> On Feb 16, 2008, at 12:41 AM, zenjabba wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Rather than a specific proxy server, could you please allow us to
>>> put in
>>> a proxy.pac file that has be configured for our network. I cannot
>>> imagine it would be that hard work, but being a perl useless person,
>> I
>>> cannot do it myself and submit it.
>>
>>
>> What does your pac file look like?  I filed an enhancement:
>> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7183
>
> This isn't a simple feature request. Well, it's a simple request, but
> the feature is complex.
>
> .pac files are javascript files which are interpreted by the browser  
> to
> find the correct proxy for the URL being fetched. You can do anything
> you like in terms of the Javascript in order to determine which proxy
> to use, is any. If the author wanted, they could check the 5th letter
> of the domain request and use a different proxy based on that.
>
> I don't think it's practical to implement .pac files with slimserver
> without building in a JS engine.

Yeah good point, and I don't expect most users have complex proxy  
setups.  Even if you have a pac file it's likely you can set a single  
proxy host and things will just work.
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