Automatically detecting proxy settings
Having gotten sufficiently annoyed at the need to maintain two Mozilla
Firebird profiles just because I use a proxy in school and none at
home, I decided to look up the “Automatically detect proxy
configuration” option. After some digging around, this is the answer I found:
This goes into my /etc/laptop-net/profiles/school/files.d/var/www/proxy.js:
function FindProxyForURL(url,host) { if(isPlainHostName(host)|| isInNet(host,"10.0.0.0","255.0.0.0")) return "DIRECT"; else return "PROXY proxy.admu.edu.ph:3128; DIRECT"; }
and this goes into my /etc/laptop-net/profiles/home/files.d/var/www/proxy.js:
function FindProxyForURL(url,host) { return "DIRECT"; }
I deleted the other profile and changed my settings to automatically
detect the proxy configuration from file:///var/www/proxy.js .
Tada! No more worries. It just works.