I am writing a custom .pac script for use with Firefox. Following numerous examples I've seen, I intersperse alert()s in order to debug it, but no alerts popup, even though the script is clearly being invoked. (I am clicking "Reload" in the "Connection settings" after each change to my script. I have even tried restarting Firefox.)
Are alerts supposed to work from PAC scripts? Maybe this is an IE-only feature?
You can find your PAC file URL by navigating to Web Filter > Proxy Server under PAC Files.
A proxy auto-configuration (PAC) file is a text file that instructs a browser to forward traffic to a proxy server, instead of directly to the destination server.
To configure PAC file mode in Mozilla Firefox:Click General. In the Network Settings section, click Settings. In the Connection Settings window, select Automatic proxy configuration URL, and enter http://<internal_IP_address>/proxy.pac . Click OK.
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/src/nsProxyAutoConfig.js
The alert function is added to the sandbox:
80 // add predefined functions to pac
81 this._sandBox.importFunction(myIpAddress);
82 this._sandBox.importFunction(dnsResolve);
83 this._sandBox.importFunction(proxyAlert, "alert");
And the mapped function calls dump, which goes to the Error Console:
108 function proxyAlert(msg) {
109 msg = XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper(msg);
110 try {
111 // It would appear that the console service is threadsafe.
112 var cns = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/consoleservice;1"]
113 .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIConsoleService);
114 cns.logStringMessage("PAC-alert: "+msg);
115 } catch (e) {
116 dump("PAC: proxyAlert ERROR: "+e+"\n");
117 }
Use alert
function in your .pac
file.
In Firefox Browser:
Tools -> Web Developer -> Browser Console (Ctrl+Shift+J) [This is not Web Console!!] -> Filter output: PAC-alert
In Chrome Browser:
Go to chrome://net-internals/#events
-> Search for a record with description: PAC_JAVASCRIPT_ALERT
(About Chrome, thank this answer)
Sample .pac
file:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
alert("url = " + url + " *** host = " + host + " *** Resolved IP = " + dnsResolve(host));
return "DIRECT";
}
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