Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Local PC Setup > Proxy Auto-Configuration Files

Format

• A piece of JavaScript code which takes the form:

          function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
          {
              ...
          }

• This file is stored on a web server with the extension .pac
• The web server must be configured to map the .pac extension to the application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig MIME type
  • For the Apache web server, add an AddType directive: AddType application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig .pac