Questions from Apple

[Jean-Christophe Collet]

Misha Bykov wrote:
>
> Apple engineers have some questions about proxy settings in JDK (not 
> deploy or applets).
>
> 1) Does the JDK support Automatic proxy configuration (WPAD) ? They know
> that applets and Webstart do, but they are interested in standalone 
> java applications.
>

No.

> 2) Does the JDK support PAC files ? (Again, they know that applets and
> webstart does, through the browser settings).

No this requires a javascript interpreter which we don't have in 
standalone JDK.

>
> 3) On windows, does the JDK (not deploy) actually use the system proxy
> settings as defined in control panel ?
>
> Actually, on Windows, it does not seem to, but they wanted to be sure. 
> They are aware that we can specify java properties on the command line 
> to use the proxy as documented here:
>
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/net/properties.html

Actually that same document specifies that setting the system property 
java.net.useSystemProxies to true will do the trick.
However in Windows the way we recover the settings might be a bit 
antiquated (we use registry entries used by I.E.).
I think there is a bug/RFE filed on tis.

>
> In the above list there is no setting for a PAC file or auto-config.
>
> Is there a contact in the networking team that Apple could get in touch
> with?
>

That would be me, or the rest of the networking team 
(net-dev at openjdk.java.net)
> Thanks,
> Misha
>
>
>

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