Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file — Return value format
The JavaScript function returns a single string If the string is null, no proxies should be used The string can contain any number of the following building blocks, separated by a semicolon DIRECT : Connections should be made directly, without any proxies PROXY host:port : The specified proxy should
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The JavaScript function returns a single string If the string is null, no proxies should be used The string can contain any number of the following building blocks, separated by a semicolon
DIRECT : Connections should be made directly, without any proxies PROXY host:port : The specified proxy should be used SOCKS host:port : The specified SOCKS server should be used
Recent versions of Firefox support as well
HTTP host:port : The specified proxy should be used HTTPS host:port : The specified HTTPS proxy should be used SOCKS4 host:port, SOCKS5 host:port : The specified SOCKS server (with the specified SOCK version) should be used
If there are multiple semicolon-separated settings, the left-most setting will be used, until Firefox fails to establish the connection to the proxy. In that case, the next value will be used, etc.
The browser will automatically retry a previously unresponsiv
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