[WEB4LIB] Re: LONG list of URLs in Netscape Proxy

[Thomas Edelblute]

Just a guess here.

Sometimes people run into problems with strings longer than 255 characters (a
little something left over from my computer programming days).  I am wondering
if that is the issue here.

Keetra C. Schultz wrote:

> Thank you to all who contributed suggestions that helped me come up with a
> solution to my problem!!!
>
> I am not 100% sure, but I think that the problem might have been a hidden
> control character somewhere within my proxy list.
>
> I tried removing all of the extra spaces in my proxy listing so that my
> prefs.js file read "url1.com,url2.com,url3.com" etc... as opposed to
> "url1.com, url2.com, url3.com" etc... but I still received the error message
> upon Netscape startup.
>
> So, I attempted to isolate the problem area of the file by inserting only a
> little of the file at a time, and was able to enter quite a bit of the file
> without problem.  However, I did eventually run across an area that, when
> copied into the proxy settings, produced the same error that I messaged
> about earlier.
>
> So, I opened the file that held the proxy list in a plain-text editor that
> didn't wrap my lines, and re-saved it.  Then copied it into the proxy
> settings, and guess what!  It worked!!
>
> Anyway, I have now changed the prefs.js file to be read only, so the copy of
> the file which is working correctly now will stay that way!
>
> Thanks again to all of you for all of your help!  :)
>
> ~Keetra



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Thomas Edelblute
Anaheim Public Library