How to find proxy server and password from .pac file

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I am using dynatrace ajax edition and it requires an proxy server and password to connect to dynatrace server.

The problem is I ONLY have the .pac file URL that we use at work.

Is it possible to know which proxy server and port my requests resolve to so that I can provide the proxy server name and password directly?

I have checked few links in the stackoverflow community but they do not seem to answer this question.

Like: How to discover de proxy used in a pac

I am using an windows 7 64 bit system with IE8.

Thanks, Ayusman

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proxypac
For me, after downloading the .pac file specified in the connection proxy settings, finding the proxy URL inside was rather easy, since there only was one URL looking like that. (Apart from additional local proxies.. which I did not need.) – Andreas Reiff
@AndreasReiff for me it was much difficult to find out manually. In the past in my enterprise pac file; it was easy; but the current organization I am in the pac file is really big with many conditional paths; so it was not easy finding out using manual inspection. – Ayusman
Does this answer your question? How to discover de proxy used in a pac – Beginner

3 Answers

10
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After trolling through some more google search results,

This nifty tool helped me perfectly:

http://code.google.com/p/pacparser/

Please note that I was on a 64 bit windows 7 machine, still it worked fine. Thanks to the author of the tool.

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Hit the URL in the address bar of the browser. It should download the file. Open the file with any text editor. Looking at the content of the file, you can easily find out the proxy IP/port being used. This worked for me. Hope it helps others too.

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To find your Web Proxy, simply go to:

http://www.whatismyproxy.com/

This web page will display information about your proxy server.