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. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
