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San Antonio, TX    February 22, 2001

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

Helpful Pre-defined Functions

isPlainHostName(host)
True if and only if there is no domain name in the hostname (no dots).
host
the hostname from the URL (excluding port number).
shExpMatch(str, shexp)
Returns true if the string matches the specified shell expression.
str
is any string to compare (e.g. the URL, or the hostname).
shexp
is a shell expression to compare against.

Adapted from Navigator Proxy Auto-Configure File Format