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Access proxy servers that use .pac files via Safari
Authored by: rkchang on Jun 21, '05 05:00:59PM

My university's library used to use .pac files for proxy set up. Even with this set up, I could not, for the life of me, get Safari to work with their .pac file. I'm not sure if .pac files are "optimized" for certain browsers, as the .pac file worked for Mozilla and Camino, but not for Safari (even in 10.3.2 and above). I ended up hard-coding some of the .pac file entries for use with Privoxy, but this also created other difficulties, as Privoxy's ad-blocking configs would also block out other innocuous images. Finally (and presumably) after much complaining, my school decided to ditch the .pac file and go for a different security log-in type service to get access to the research databases.

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