Aperture does not seem to use the proxy settings

Basically, it is an HTML page containing

[...]
<h1>Your Browser is Misconfigured</h1>
<h2>Please follow these instructions</h2>
How To Configure Your Browser
[...]

which is a link to how to set the proxy (automatic configuration with a PAC file). Note that the proxy does not require authentication.

I tried, and yes it does work. Great!

Do you want me to send you the proxy PAC file?

Just in case, I also tried to modify it so the PAC file returns all the time the same proxy server, but this did not work...

I'm also using a PAC file - issue is still there

12/12/2008 11:13:35 Aperture[484] HTTP Error: sendSynchronousRequest returned nil.
12/12/2008 11:13:36 Aperture[484] HTTP Error: sendSynchronousRequest returned nil.

This is the pac file

function FindProxyForURL(url,host)
{
// Hostname without domainname or host within our own domain?
// Try them directly:
var lchost=host.toLowerCase();
if ( isPlainHostName(host)||
dnsDomainIs( host,".gla.ac.uk")||
localHostOrDomainIs(lchost,"127.0.0.1") ||
shExpMatch(url, "connect:*:563") ||
shExpMatch(url, "connect:*:443") ||
shExpMatch(url, "connect:*:444") ||
shExpMatch(url, "https:*:*")
)
return "DIRECT";

// First try proxy1 then proxy2.
// If one of 'm is down the client will try the other server.
else
return "PROXY wwwcache.dcs.gla.ac.uk:8080; PROXY wwwcache.gla.ac.uk:8080";
}

I too have found the problem to occur with PAC files (still — not sure if you/Apple have done anything to resolve this since the bug was reported?)

If I set the proxy manually, it works fine (which I was very pleased to discover) but I still feel the PAC file should be workable...

My pac file can be found at http://www.usyd.edu.au/proxy.pac (I'm fairly sure it's publicly accessible)

Fraser,

I'm not personally a Mac OS X developer (at least, not outside the C++ std lib) so I may well be missing the point / making some invalid assumptions... so if I'm telling you something totally irrelevant or something you already know all about please don't take offence (:

Having looked into other applications that don't support PAC files but do support a manually set proxy, I came across some documentation that suggested to me that the method of getting the proxy from a PAC file was quite different to when it was manually set in the network preferences. Because a PAC file is just a script that lets you set a proxy based on the URL being accessed (i.e. depending on both your own and the destination host/port) there's no sensible response for a "GetProxy()" type function (without supplying a URL). Instead, the URL needs to be passed through the PAC script to determine the proxy settings.

Anyway, you may have already looked into this and I might be totally off the mark (i.e. I have no idea which API(s) you have access to for plug-ins!), but on the off-chance that the problem is a complex or non-intuitive API, I thought I'd mention this...

These links/examples might be helpful (or at the very least a better explanation than I've managed):

- http://developer.apple.com/mac/librar...
- http://developer.apple.com/mac/librar...