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Eirik Bakke edited comment on NETBEANS-96 at 2/26/18 7:47 PM:
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Is this patch a replacement for the 
[NetBeansProxy2|https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansproxy2] project? See 
Bugzilla issue [245116|https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245116].


was (Author: ebakke):
Is this patch a replacement for the 
[NetBeansProxy2|https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansproxy2] project? See 
Bugzilla issue [245116|https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245116]).

> New PAC Script evaluator
> ------------------------
>
>                 Key: NETBEANS-96
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-96
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: lbruun
>            Assignee: lbruun
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>             Fix For: 9.0
>
>
> The current [PAC script|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config] 
> evaluator (in {{core.network}}) was developed pre-Nashorn and has a few 
> problems:
> * It simply fails with Nashorn - but not with Rhino - if the downloaded 
> script uses {{isInNet()}}. This was reported in [Bug 
> 245116|https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245116]. It fails 
> silently in this case and defaults to no proxy. The user will never know the 
> reason - not even by looking in the message log - that there was an error.
> * It doesn't  implement two mandatory JavaScript helper methods, 
> {{dnsResolve()}} and {{myIpAddress()}}. This is a known issue. This causes 
> many PAC scripts to silently fail. 
> * It doesn't implement Microsoft's IPv6-aware additions to the PAC standard. 
> This is a problem in MS shops because they will have designed their PAC 
> script to be compatible with MS IE and MS Edge (which unsurprisingly support 
> these functions .. as do Chrome).
> * It uses a small JavaScript helper, {{nsProxyAutoConfig.js}}, which uses a 
> license which is not compatible with Apache. This is described in NETBEANS-4.
> * Isn't executing the downloaded PAC script in a sandboxed environment. (The 
> PAC script should be treated as hostile because the download may have been 
> spoofed. Browsers indeed treat the PAC script as hostile and so should 
> NetBeans).
> Pull Request with a new implementation is on its way.



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