[ILUG] proxy.pac

[Mark Kilmartin]

I'm trying to set up automatic proxy configuration on the company
network.

I have created a proxy.pac file on the server.
A client has been configured to load it.
It does load it.

But.

The following proxy.pac file works.

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
	return "PROXY 172.17.1.170:8080";
}

This one works and the clients use 172.17.1.170:8080 for the proxy
settings and I can browse any page I want.


However if I get a little more adventurous and try stop say addresses
that are just plain hostnames e.g. http://host/ going through the proxy,
by changing the proxy.pac to the following.

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
        if isPlainHostName(host)
                return "DIRECT";

        return "PROXY 172.17.1.170:8080";
}

Then all connections go direct, and bypass the proxy.

Has anybody else done this in the past.

The browser I'm using is mozilla 1.0 if that makes any difference.

MArk