# Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file — Use proxy for everything except local hosts

> > [!NOTE] > Since all of the examples that follow are very specific, they have not been tested.

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&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; Since all of the examples that follow are very specific, they have not been tested.

All hosts which aren't fully qualified, or the ones that are in local domain, will be connected to directly. Everything else will go through w3proxy.mozilla.org:8080. If the proxy goes down, connections become direct automatically

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; This is the simplest and most efficient autoconfig file for cases where there's only one proxy.

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