>> On 05 Oct 2015, at 19:28, Volkert <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> at work we are using a "auto proxy configuration". Your proxy definition in your app looks like "http://<server>:<ip>/proxy.pac.  See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config.
>>
>> Any idea, how to use this proxy definition with Pharo? Would be terrible, if i can not use Pharo here at work.
>>
>> BW,
>> Volkert
>  From http://curl.askapache.com/faq.html#Does_curl_support_Javascript_or
>
> <quote>
>
> 3.14 Does curl support Javascript or PAC (automated proxy config)?
>
> Many web pages do magic stuff using embedded Javascript. Curl and libcurl
> have no built-in support for that, so it will be treated just like any other
> contents.
>
> .pac files are a netscape invention and are sometimes used by organizations
> to allow them to differentiate which proxies to use. The .pac contents is
> just a Javascript program that gets invoked by the browser and that returns
> the name of the proxy to connect to. Since curl doesn't support Javascript,
> it can't support .pac proxy configuration either.
>
> Some workarounds usually suggested to overcome this Javascript dependency:
>
> - Depending on the Javascript complexity, write up a script that
> translates it to another language and execute that.
>
> - Read the Javascript code and rewrite the same logic in another language.
>
> - Implement a Javascript interpreter, people have successfully used the
> Mozilla Javascript engine in the past.
>
> - Ask your admins to stop this, for a static proxy setup or similar.
>
> </quote>
>
> If even curl does not support it ....
>
> I would suggest asking your local sysadmin for a direct proxy host:port