<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Foxyproxy is a good plugin for firefox if you cannot get the PAC file working. That allows setting exceptions and redirecting to different proxies based on regular expressions. </div> <div> On 1 May 2013, at 17:11, Neil Greenwood <<a href="mailto:neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com">neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite"><div> On May 1, 2013 4:16 PM, "Simon Greenwood" <<a href="mailto:sfgreenwood@gmail.com">sfgreenwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > On 1 May 2013 16:06, Neil Greenwood <<a href="mailto:neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com">neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I'm having a problem with Ubuntu in work when I try to use a PAC file to configure the proxy. The result is that the http_proxy variable is not set, and everything tries to connect directly. Does anyone have any idea how I could try to debug this? >> >> By the way, the same file works perfectly for all the windows machines, so I doubt it's a syntax error but it is a possibility. >> >> I downloaded the source for libproxy, but I can't easily see where to start - my C++ is very limited, I'm a Java programmer. > > It's been a while since I've needed one but Firefox used to honour HTTP_PROXY when set as an environment variable so you could just set it in your .profile. I think Chrome might not and a quick search seems to confirm that. > > s/ > -- > Twitter: @sfgreenwood > "TBA are particularly glib" > Thanks for the suggestion, Simon. I have internet access working by manually setting the proxy. However, the PAC file is about 50 lines long with exceptions including various subnets. I haven't been able to use no_proxy with CIDRs, so I'd prefer to get the PAC working if possible, especially since there are 40+ other Ubuntu users in the same office and it would be nice if we could have the same experience as the few remaining windows users! Any other ideas? Neil. </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>-- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div></blockquote></body></html>