I don’t know if browsers support a local file for a proxy.pac or not. That would be the first thing I would investigate.
> On Feb 25, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Louis Kowolowski > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I’m making some assumptions here, and if they’re not true, you can either >> correct me, or if the functionality i describe is what you want, take a look >> at https://www.cryptomonkeys.com/2014/07/automatic-http-proxy/ where I >> detail how to set this up. >> >> Presumably you have: >> a) a web server that is passing the proxy.pac file out, and generating logs >> b) configured the browser’s proxy settings to “auto” >> >> When you start/load the browser, you should be able to see in the >> webserver’s logs that its pulling a copy of the proxy.pac file. If this >> isn’t the case, that’s likely to be your problem. The site you mention is a >> little light on details for all this, so I’m not sure if you only have a >> partial setup, or if you’ve misconfigured something. > > A bit more detail: I recently got a Chromebook (nope, I haven't > installed Linux/Crouton on it, yet). So this system does not have a > web server on it, which is what I would normally use. And I don't > want to set up a remote webserver. Instead, my hope it to have the > proxy.pac file reside locally on the Chromebook itself. So the URL to > the proxy.pac file would be something like > file:///home/chronos/.../proxy.pac. But thus far, that does not seem > to be working. > > Thanks for the feedback thus far. > > Regards, > - Robert > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977
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