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Mon, 06/14/2010 - 06:38 — etricky

Hello.

At work I have to access the internet via a proxy. At home I don't. I have foxyproxy configured to detect my IP to choose which proxy to use and the proxy that I use at work is configured via automated proxy configuration URL.

If I use my laptop at home, the first time I use FF at work it will ask me to validate my foxyproxy license since it has disabled the proxy.
This problem already happened with a previous version of foxyproxy (I didn’t had foxyproxy plus then) and there was a new release to correct it, but it still happens. 
Best regards,
Ricardo
 

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Wed, 06/16/2010 - 00:05 — ericjung

Hi, What you describe is

Hi,

What you describe is expected behavior. When FoxyProxy can't load a PAC file, it disables the proxy. It does this to prevent you from getting connection errors to websites. If it didn't do it, you'd get connection errors at home (well, depending on the patterns you've defined and how you use FoxyProxy).

The immediate solution:

1. Deal with it and enable to proxy everytime you go back to work. Something tells me you won't like that solution :)

OR

2. Copy the PAC file from work onto your local hard drive. Then point FoxyProxy to that file instead of the network PAC file. That way, FoxyProxy will always find the PAC file. The proxy won't ever disable

The long-term solution:

Tell me how you'd like it to work. I have tentative work which re-enables a proxy when/if a PAC can be found. Is that what you'd like to happen?

Thanks,
Eric

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 11:12 — etricky

Hi Eric As you guessed, I

Hi Eric
As you guessed, I don't like your first solution :). Your second solution isn't viable because de PAC file is altered whenever there is a new address in my corporative network and that happens a lot!
Regarding your long-term solution, I think it would be exactly what I need to solve this.
I guess I will have to deal with this untill you release a new version of FoxyProxy with your long-term solution.
Thanks for your reply.
Best regards,
Ricardo