Netscape 6 and auto-proxy

[Peter Murray]

--On Monday, December 18, 2000 9:04 AM -0800 "Rutherford, John 
(Library)" <Rutherford at mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone heard anything from
> Netscape on the broken auto-proxy in
> Netscape 6? I just installed Mozilla 0.6
> and it still has the same problem.

It is a known problem within the Mozilla builds:

  <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53080>

It is currently being worked on.  The latest difficulty is that the 
Proxy Autoconfig file was given too much power by the browser, so they 
are developing a JavaScript "sandbox" that will limit what the 
JavaScript within a PAC file can do (yet not limit the functionality of 
the Proxy Autoconfig file).


Peter
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Peter Murray, Computer Services Librarian              W: 860-570-5233
University of Connecticut Law School             Hartford, Connecticut