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Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag

Posted Jun 16, 2010 14:23 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag by dgm
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag

you can create a proxy.pac file that will detect your IP address and decide to use a proxy or go direct depending on what your IP is (or anything else that it can detect in javascript)

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proxy auto-config

Posted Jun 25, 2010 10:47 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

Yeah, this works for browsers. Other programs need HTTP, too.

I'd rather not have apt-get's http method evaluate JavaScript code.