HTTP::ProxyPAC is Copyright 2005, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa , Copyright 2010, Craig MacKenna 0.2 March 2010 INSTALL via CPAN or CPANPLUS, or * download HTTP-ProxyPAC-0.n.tar.gz into a good place for building * cd into that place * tar -xf HTTP-ProxyPAC-0.n.tar.gz makes a similarly-named folder * cd into it * perl Makefile.PL * make * make test * sudo make install (your system may not want sudo) DESCRIPTION Modern references include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol http://www.craigjconsulting.com/proxypac.html http://www.returnproxy.com/proxypac/ This version will use the JavaScript module and I from Mozilla, if it finds JavaScript installed. Otherwise it will use the JE module as its JavaScript interpreter, so that CPAN or CPANPLUS can do the whole installation. If you have any problems, please complain to craig@animalhead.com rather than the original author. Include the error message and the .pac or wpad.dat file. LICENSE INFORMATION This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.1. For more details, see the full text of the licenses at and . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but it is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties. For details, see the full text of the licenses at the above URLs. 0.01 May 2006 This module is being developed to provide access for Perl scripts to the Proxy Auto Config format from Netscape. The original description is now archived at: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/autoproxy.html HTTP::ProxyPAC allows use of a Proxy Auto Configuration file to find an appropriate proxy for a URL. You can use a .pac file from Firefox, IE or Opera, or a wpad.dat file obtained via the WPAD protocol (see 2nd link in DESCRIPTION).