Re: pactester for Windows
Manu Garg
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:18 PM, mdgrkb <mdg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Manu.
Hello there,
>
> First of all, thank you very much for posting this Windows version of
> the PAC Tester. I was fearing I would have to install a Linux box in
> order to run the utility, for I don't have any Linux box around right
> now. Fortunately, I found this version and it already pointed me to a
> parenthesis mismatch, which is great (Y).
>
I am glad that you found pactester useful.
> Next thing I tried was a URL using the MMS protocol, that is mms://,
> but PAC Tester output was "Not a proper URL".
>
> I am aware the MMS protocol is being discontinued by Microsoft.
> However, there still are some customers that use it extensively, so I
> was wondering if you are planning on adding MMS protocol support for
> the PAC Tester.
>
Regarding supporting mms:// protocol, I think it doesn't make much
sense to check for protocol. I have checked in some changes (for both
versions of pactester - C and perl) to drop protocol verification
completely. You can see the diff here if you are interested:
http://code.google.com/p/pacparser/source/diff?path=/trunk/pactester.c&format=side&r=92
http://code.google.com/p/pactester/source/diff?r=28&format=side&path=/trunk/pactester
These changes will go in next release. I have not scheduled it yet.
May be some time in first or second week of September. In the meantime
you can use existing pactester with '-h' option. For example something
like following works:
pactester -p examples/wpad.dat -u mms://www.some-mms-site.com -h
www.some-mms-site.com
Protocol verification happens only if you don't specify host explicitly.
> Thank you very much.
>
> Mario
>
Cheers,
Manu
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