Questions from Apple

[Jean-Christophe Collet]

Roman Kennke wrote:
>> Hi,
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>>> 2) Does the JDK support PAC files ? (Again, they know that applets and
>>> webstart does, through the browser settings).
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>> No this requires a javascript interpreter which we don't have in 
>> standalone JDK.
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> No? Isn't javax.script an API for scripting, and actually has a
> JavaScript interpreter underneath?
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> /Roman
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Ok, I should have been a bit more specific I guess.
We didn't have a scripting engine when we introduced the ProxySelector 
API back in 1.5
Even now it's still more complicated than that, since PAC files relies 
also on a number of library functions like shExpMatch(), isInNet(), 
dnsResolve() etc... which are not part of the engine per-se.
In any cases this would be a significant amount of work, but the good 
news is that the ProxySelector framework has been designed to allow for 
plugins.

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