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lbruun commented on NETBEANS-96:
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Have created [Pull request
161|https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/161] for this.
> New PAC Script evaluator
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> Key: NETBEANS-96
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-96
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: lbruun
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> 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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