Subj : Re: PAC support in SpiderMonkey
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Heath Raftery <hraftery@myrealbox.com>
Date : Thu Aug 14 2003 12:58 am

In article <hraftery-9C0485.00250911082003@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
 Heath Raftery <hraftery@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> I've since discovered that SM doesn't support 
> the PAC extension functions out of the box! These include isInNet(), 
> isPlainHostName(), shExpMatch() and so forth.
> 
> I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel and so was wondering if anyone 
> knew how I might easily include these functions in my code.

After a few bum steers, I found the functions defined here:

<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/base/src/nsProxyAutoConf
ig.js>

Everything was looking rosy once I had these in. Unfortunately, isInNet 
(and others I imagine) still fail because the dnsResolve function calls 
host.resolve, which doesn't seem to be defined in the language, nor in 
that file. I went for a bit of a hunt for it but got caught chasing my 
tail. Any suggestions?

I'm suprised this hasn't come up and been solved before actually. I 
would have imagined developers would often want to support PAC files in 
their (proxy/browser/etc) applications without re-inventing the wheel.

-- 
Heath
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