In FireFox internet connection is made through a proxy auto config file "something.pac"
How do I know for a certain URL which proxy server is being used?
Thanks.
In FireFox internet connection is made through a proxy auto config file "something.pac"
How do I know for a certain URL which proxy server is being used?
Thanks.
.pac file is just an emca script - aka JavaScript. Check out the wikipedia article on the file format.
If you copy the PAC code you can process it to see what proxy is being used based on the target url. If you are feeling fancy, you can wrap the script into a web page (locally) to create a tool to evaluate locally.
Edit:
As an alternative to the method I started recommending, you might check out PACTester, available on Google Code. This will allow you to quickly test a range of options.
If you have .Net available and are interested in playing with C# then you can check out this article on MSDN which has code you can use in a similar fashion to the above.
To expand on the original method outlined above, there are a number of functions which may (and typically are) provided by the host browser. The basic function which must be implemented in a pac
file is FindProxyForUrl()
. This accepts two parameters: the url and the host (the host derived from the name of url). The "provided" functions include: isInNet()
, localHostOrDomainIs()
, isPlainHostName()
, isResolvable()
, etc.
If you are working in a Microsoft environment then you can check out this page on Technet which describes the .pac format with some useful examples.
Per the Microsoft documentation for isInNet()
:
The
isInNet(host, pattern, mask)
function returnsTRUE
if the host IP address matches the specifiedpattern
. Themask
indicates which part of the IP address to match (255=match, 0=ignore).
If you want to get technical, here is the Mozilla source code for the implementation of proxy auto-config related services. It specifies the JS code for isInNet()
as:
200 function isInNet(ipaddr, pattern, maskstr) {
201 var test = /^(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})$/(ipaddr);
202 if (test == null) {
203 ipaddr = dnsResolve(ipaddr);
204 if (ipaddr == null)
205 return false;
206 } else if (test[1] > 255 || test[2] > 255 ||
207 test[3] > 255 || test[4] > 255) {
208 return false; // not an IP address
209 }
210 var host = convert_addr(ipaddr);
211 var pat = convert_addr(pattern);
212 var mask = convert_addr(maskstr);
213 return ((host & mask) == (pat & mask));
214
215 }
Hope that helps!
I've created simple HTML page resolving proxy:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function myIpAddress() {
return "192.168.1.2"; // Your IP
}
function isInNet(ipaddr, pattern, maskstr) {
var test = /^(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})$/(ipaddr);
if (test == null) {
ipaddr = dnsResolve(ipaddr);
if (ipaddr == null) return false;
} else if (test[1] > 255 || test[2] > 255 || test[3] > 255 || test[4] > 255) {
return false; // not an IP address
}
var host = convert_addr(ipaddr);
var pat = convert_addr(pattern);
var mask = convert_addr(maskstr);
return ((host & mask) == (pat & mask));
}
function dnsResolve(host) {
try {
return dns.resolve(host, 0).getNextAddrAsString();
} catch (e) {
return null;
}
}
function convert_addr(ipchars) {
var bytes = ipchars.split('.');
var result = ((bytes[0] & 0xff) << 24) |
((bytes[1] & 0xff) << 16) |
((bytes[2] & 0xff) << 8) |
(bytes[3] & 0xff);
return result;
}
function isPlainHostName(host) {
return host.search('\\\\.') == -1;
}
function shExpMatch(url, pattern) {
pattern = pattern.replace(/\\./g, '\\\\.');
pattern = pattern.replace(/\\*/g, '.*');
pattern = pattern.replace(/\\?/g, '.');
var newRe = new RegExp('^' + pattern + '$');
return newRe.test(url);
}
function dnsDomainIs(host, domain) {
return host.length >= domain.length && host.substring(host.length - domain.length) == domain;
}
</script>
<!-- Your proxy script -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="webproxy.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
Host: <input id="host"/><br/>
URL: <input id="url"/><br/>
Proxy: <input id="proxy" disabled="disabled"/><br/>
<input type="button" value="Resolve"
onclick="document.getElementById('proxy').value = FindProxyForURL(document.getElementById('host').value, document.getElementById('url').value)"/><br/>
</body>
</html>
Code for myIpAddress etc I've got from mozilla sources.