urllib2, proxies, and pac files on OS X

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Mar2009 11:00, Mani Ghasemlou <mani at tungle.com> wrote:
| urllib2 correctly detects proxies as configured in my preferences pane
| on OS X 10.5:
[...]
| However, when configuring a proxy via PAC file, this does not seem to
| be the case:
[...]
| Is there any way to obtain (and parse using something like pacparser)
| the PAC file via urllib2 (or some other standard python library), or
| is this something I need to tackle using Cocoa (in my case PyObjC)?

You'll need a JavaScript interpreter. A PAC file contains a JavaScript
function that is run _per_URL_ to decide what proxy, if any, to use for
that particular fetch. Clearly you can't get a static proxy description
in the general case.
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