# Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file — Parameters

> url : The URL being accessed. The path and query components of https:// URLs are stripped. In Chrome (versions 52 to 73), you can disable this by setting PacHttpsUrlStrippingEnabled to false in policy or by launching with the --unsafe-pac-url command-line flag (in Chrome 74, only the flag works, and

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url : The URL being accessed. The path and query components of https:// URLs are stripped. In Chrome (versions 52 to 73), you can disable this by setting PacHttpsUrlStrippingEnabled to false in policy or by launching with the --unsafe-pac-url command-line flag (in Chrome 74, only the flag works, and from 75 onward, there is no way to disable path-stripping; as of Chrome 81, path-stripping does not apply to HTTP URLs, but there is interest in changing this behavior to match HTTPS); in Firefox, the preference is network.proxy.autoconfig_url.include_path. host : The hostname extracted from the URL. This is only for convenience; it is the same string as between :// and the first : or / after that. The port number is not included in this parameter. It can be extracted from the URL when necessary.

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