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Conference gyro::internet_toolss

Title:	Internet Tools
Notice:	Report ALL NETSCAPE Problems directly to [email protected].rnet? Read note 448.L for beginner information.
Moderator:	teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer

Created:	Fri Jun 25 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4714
Total number of notes:	40609

4621.0. "MS Internet Explorer and auto-proxy ?" by nova05.vbo.dec.com::BERGER () Fri Apr 18 1997 07:31

According to http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ieak/auto.htm
IE 3.02 (and 4.0 I believe) supports auto-proxy configuration like 
Netscape, using a .pac file that contains a JavaScript function named 
FindProxyForURL.

I've been using that for a long time with Netscape (to go through 
the PA firewall or my local one in VBO depending on the destination 
URL), but for the life of me I can't make it work with IE. Whatever I 
do either it goes back to the proxies set "manually", or to no proxy 
at all.

Has anybody had any success with this ?

	Vincent

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4621.1	You need IEAK	OSTV03::MAKI	TANSTAAFL	`Sun Apr 20 1997 06:43`	7
	According to the IE page, you need to make "something" with IEAK (Internet Explorer Administration Kit) to use auto-proxy feature. I think it isn't Javascript. ( .asp file? I don't know. ) ---- Maki Watanabe [Internet System, East Japan 1 - SI DEC-Japan] Internet: [email protected]
4621.2	Make sure you have the latest version of I.E	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Jan-Erik Pedersen	`Mon Apr 21 1997 05:37`	9
	You must have >>I.E 3.02<< then under the options menu do: 1. Use the connections menu to to disable "Connect through a proxy server" 2. Then under the advanced menu, you can configure automatic proxy config. [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
4621.3		QUARK::LIONEL	Free advice is worth every cent	`Mon Apr 21 1997 11:13`	4
	Unfortunately, there does not seem to be the ability to simply point at a local file containing the auto=proxy script - it must be on a server somewhere. Steve
4621.4	Another one fighting this	ROKKON::mko-ras-port-5.mko.dec.com::Cohen		`Thu Apr 24 1997 08:06`	16
	I've been stuggling (unsuccessfully) with this as well. My basic environment is an Intel PC with Windows95. I either RAS into Digital or connect to an ISP (hence the need to switch from Proxy to No Proxy) I've been trying to use my .pac files from Netscape. No matter what I do I can't get IE to "load" them from my local drive on my PC. The documentation on the Microsoft web site is not very useful, basically a bunch of URLs that point to each other without explaining what you need to do. There is a comment that only ftp, http (and some other protocols) are supported, i.e. not "file"?, but I don't know how this helps. If anyone has figured this out, I would appreciate hearing about it.