On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Miller Bonnie L.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Ben--yes, the Java app does NOT work if we manually define the path to
> the proxy.pac file, which is why I was asking if anyone has it working this
> way
> exacly (with no wpad).
That does seem to suggest it's something about your proxy.pac file
in particular that Java does not like.
That should be fairly easy to test, though. Put a different PAC
file on a web server somewhere, and see if Java will accept that one.
For example, put the following in a file called "dumb.pac", and put
that on the web server. Then point Java to dumb.pac instead of the
regular one, using the manually-defined PAC URL option in Java.
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
return "PROXY your.proxy.server.example.com:8080";
}
Obviously, change the proxy server name and port number to match
your environment. This is the simplest PAC file possible that
actually uses a proxy. If Java does not work for you with this, it's
prolly not the PAC stuff itself, but something like a bad end-of-line
character or a misconfigured web server or something. Incorrect MIME
Content-Type definitions on the web server often result in screwy
behavior, for example.
On the other hand, if Java works with the above, then it's something
in your specific PAC file that's causing the problem. Perhaps a
feature of JavaScript is being used which Java's interpreter does not
understand.
> I'm not sure the exact reason, but I've been told we're not going to use
> wpad. Maybe this is wrong,
> but I was told it has something to do with the setting we are using to split
> the proxy for the youtube
> settings. The more I've read though, it looks like wpad points to a .pac
> formatted file, so why would
> it not work (at least in IE/Chrome) if the .pac file already works otherwise?
Yah, that doesn't make any sense to me. DNS-based WPAD is just a
standard name and URL path to look for a PAC file. Even if you were
doing something server-side that needed the URL to end in "proxy.pac",
you would just make "/wpad.dat" a redirect (I'd recommend that anyway,
for clarity).
-- Ben
