Re: Howto extract proxy from .pac script?

On Jun 18, 4:01 am, Heath Raftery <hraft...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrei Korostelev <and...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a path to the .pac file received using SystemConfiguration
Framework API. This .pac file allows selecting the appropriate proxy
server for a given URL.

The question is: is it any C/C++ API to extract proxy from this .pac
file for a given URL?

You need a full blown JavaScript interpreter - .pac files can use any
valid JavaScript, even though they often just do "if url is local,
return no proxy, else return this proxy". In my proxy server,
Authoxy, I used SpiderMonkey to do this. Fortunately, Authoxy is now
open source[1] (and I contributed some work back to the SpiderMonkey
team), so you'll welcome to benefit from what I've already done.

However, until Patrick posted in this thread, I was unaware of the
Cocoa interface. If I had the choice, I'd probably try to use that,
if I already had access to the Cocoa frameworks.

[1]http://sourceforge.net/projects/authoxy-panther/

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Thanks to everybody. As I already noticed above, I solved the probvlem
by using JavaScript inpetrpreter from SpiderMonkey. Works fine both in
Mac and in Win. What I was looking for is a dedicated API in Mac OS X
to do the same. Carbon is the highest possible API layer I can use, so
Cocoa does not seem right choice. Nevertheless, thanks for you
autoproxy link, Heath.

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