[PLUG] proxy.pac

[Louis Kowolowski]

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 <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Louis Kowolowski
> <louisk at cryptomonkeys.org> 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
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Louis Kowolowski                                louisk at cryptomonkeys.org
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