Subj : Re: PAC support in SpiderMonkey
To   : Heath Raftery <hraftery@myrealbox.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed Aug 13 2003 11:51 am

Heath Raftery wrote:

>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,
>

The core language, specified by ECMA-262 Edition 3, is a general-purpose 
scripting language.  It has nothing about PAC, DOM, VXML, or any of the 
many other embedding layers in it.

>nor in 
>that file. I went for a bit of a hunt for it but got caught chasing my 
>tail. Any suggestions?
>

If you are not using Mozilla's networking library (Necko, source in 
mozilla/netwerk/), then what are you using for things like DNS resolution?

/be

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