HTTP-ProxyAutoConfig

                         Copyright 2001, Ryan Eatmon <reatmon@mail.com>,
                         Copyright 2010, Craig MacKenna <craig@animalhead.com>

0.2 March 2010

INSTALL via CPAN or CPANPLUS, or

download HTTP-AutoProxy-0.n.tar.gz into a good place for building
cd into that place
tar -xf HTTP-AutoProxy-0.n.tar.gz makes a similarly-named folder
cd into it
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install (your system may not need sudo)

DESCRIPTION

Modern references include:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol
      http://www.craigjconsulting.com/proxypac.html
      http://www.returnproxy.com/proxypac/

This version allows use of a .pac file on disk as well as on the network, and improves the JavaScript to perl translation process, almost to the point of being usable.

Any fancy JavaScript in the .pac or wpad.dat file is can still result in a perl syntax error, but hopefully it will be displayed in an understandable way.

If this happens to you, complain to craig@animalhead.com. Include the error message and the .pac or wpad.dat file.

LICENSE INFORMATION

This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.1. For more details, see the full text of the licenses at

<http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_1_0> and <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but it is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties. For details, see the full text of the licenses at the above URLs.

0.1 May 2001

This module is being developed to provide access for Perl scripts to the Proxy Auto Config format from Netscape, originally at: http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

The URL above is no longer valid. The file is now archived at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/autoproxy.html

This is very very alpha, and may end up being sucked into another package if I can find a different maintainer.

Ryan Eatmon
reatmon@jabber.org