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Use web proxy auto-discovery in Safari
Authored by: leamanc on Jul 14, '09 08:14:45PM

Nice find, but wow, that is totally un-intuitive. You *must* have a server with that hostname, and it *must* have a file with that name on it? Come on Apple, just put in a proxy server config in Safari. Geez.



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Use web proxy auto-discovery in Safari
Authored by: Piquan on Jul 15, '09 12:06:47AM

I think you may have misunderstood. The way that autodiscovery works in ALL browsers is that you must have a proxy auto-config file with that name. (No browser will probe for any proxies that happen to be on the nextwork, and having one that tried would be a network admin's nightmare.) The only difference is that Safari doesn't have a button to automatically fill it in for you.



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Use web proxy auto-discovery in Safari
Authored by: Deegee on Jul 15, '09 06:32:30AM

Right I'm not a computer newbie but not a power user either. Tell me, why would a browser need this feature?
I've noticed Internet Explorer take ages to finish, 'detecting proxy settings' and have always been glad that the same delay doesn't exist on Safari.



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