On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 13:14 -0800, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> > > * Package name : pacparser > Version : 1.0.7 > Upstream Author : Manu Garg <manugarg@gmail.com> > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pacparser > * License : GPLv3 > Programming Lang: C > Description : library to parse proxy auto-config files > > a library to parse proxy auto-config (PAC) files. Proxy auto-config files are > a vastly used proxy configuration method these days. Web browsers can use a PAC > file to determine which proxy server to use or whether to go direct for a given > URL. PAC files are written in JavaScript and can be programmed to return > different proxy methods (e.g. "PROXY proxy1:port; DIRECT") depending upon URL, > source IP address, protocol, time of the day etc. PAC files introduce a lot of > possibilities. Look at the wikipedia link above to find out more about them. What wikipedia link ? :) -Rob
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