automatic configuration script problems

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John

Hi,

We're using a proxy.pac file to configure our PC browsers.
In this we're using these kind of statements:

dnsDomainIs(host, ".dnsdomain.net")

When for instance our users tries to go to to a domain
named something like this:

http://www.dnsdomain.netxtra.net/

It hits the above and tries to go directly to the website
in question and it fails because we don't allow it.
BTW, this works perfectly under Mozilla/Firefox.

A workaround exists though:

else if ( dnsDomainIs(host, ".dnsdomain.net") ) {
return "PROXY proxy.company.net:8080; \
DIRECT;"

If we configure this in the proxy.pac at the very top it
works to browse the domain and it goes via the proxy
server.

Any solutions? Is this a bug or what?

Kind regards, //John
 
After some more troubleshooting the basic problem is that the IE browser
looks at strings and not the "." in the specific context.
Indeed the occasions are rare but they do exist and it's very much a
real problem for us anyway.

Kind regards, //John
 
We are experiencing the same problem here at work.

We use the domain '.intra' for all internal sites. Our proxy.pac
files returns a DIRECT for all '.intra' requests. Unfortunately this
also breaks sites like: www.intranets.com, www.intranuts.com,
www.intranet.com, ...

We are using IE v6. Everything appears to work OK with non IE
browsers though; I have tested Mozilla & Firefox.

-Andy
 
Just to update on the issue. It's now confirmed from Microsoft support
that the "or" function doesn't work in the automatic configuration
script part of the IE browser and they are NOT getting it fixed.
My company is not the only one having this problem there several others.

Kind regards, //John
 
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