Mozilla's not working

Alexl

hey guys, I just registered my laptop today in halls and can get internet explorer working, but seeing as explorer is f**king terrible I really want to get mozilla working, or even google chrome but I dont think that works. Can anyone help me, I put this into the automatic proxy configuration URL http://proxypac.tcd.ie/accelerated_pac_%20base.pac

Can anyone else think why this isn't working????? Thanks a million

antiselfdual

well if that's literally what you put into the automatic configuration option there shouldn't be a space between the last _ and base, otherwise I don't know why it wouldn't work...

Mark200

Can't remember the settings for Firefox, but Chrome does work. The settings (for at least on campus anyway) are:

Options -> Under The Hood -> Change proxy settings -> Lan Settings

Then tick "Use a proxy server for your LAN" and put in:

Address: proxyb.tcd.ie
Port: 8080


Then when you want to use the internet at home (or anywhere not in trinity) then just untick that box that you ticked. And then just tick it again when you're in trinity again.

Jonathan

I use this to switch between any proxies I use.

It doesn't matter what proxy you use. The .pac file just contains the code below.

// The last octet of the IP address is examined
// Even    TCD IP addresses will be pointed to proxya, odd    addresses proxyb
// PAC file format official documentation: http://wp.netscape.com./eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

// Variables:
//                    host                  - the hostname extracted from the URL.
//                    url                   - the full URL being accessed.
//                    ip                    - IP address of    client,    can resolve to loopback    if used    from non-TCD network.
//                    lastoctet          - last octet of    IP address of client.
//  removed dnsDomainIs(host, ".tcd.ie") || dm 23-5-07

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
           var ip = myIpAddress();
           var lastoctet =    ip.split('.');

           //if requested URL is local; go    direct else via    proxy
           if (isPlainHostName(host) ||
               dnsDomainIs(host, "localhost") ||
               dnsDomainIs(host, "127.0.0.1") ||
               url.substring(0, 5)    == "news:" ||
               isInNet(host, "134.226.0.0", "255.255.0.0")    ||
               isInNet(host, "10.1.0.0", "255.255.0.0") ||
               isInNet(host, "10.2.0.0", "255.255.0.0") ||
               isInNet(host, "10.5.0.0", "255.255.0.0") ||
               isInNet(host, "193.1.64.0",    "255.255.248.0"))
               return "DIRECT";
           else {
                      //loadbalance even ending IP's to proxya, odd to proxyb
                      if ( (lastoctet[3] % 2)    == 0 )
                                 { return "PROXY    proxyA.tcd.ie:8080 ; PROXY proxyB.tcd.ie:8080" ; DIRECT    }
                      else       { return "PROXY    proxyB.tcd.ie:8080 ; PROXY proxyA.tcd.ie:8080" ; DIRECT    }
                }
}

Alexl

thanks a million guys