AW: Disabling recursion causes browser hangs on clients with auto proxy config

[Niall O'Reilly]

Frank Stanek wrote:
> I'm sorry but I don't quite understand what you mean. Could you
> please elaborate this on the basis of this excerpt from our pac
> file?
> 
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
> {
>     var proxy1 = "PROXY 192.168.240.29:8080";
>     var proxy2 = "PROXY 172.16.1.30:8080";
>     if ( dnsDomainIs(host, ".intern")
>         || shExpMatch(url, "*//localhost*")
>         || shExpMatch(url, "*//127*")

	So far so good: you've tried to match part of the text of the
	URL against each of those rules.

>         || isInNet(host, "192.168.1.0", "255.255.255.0")
>         // more lines with subnets

	Before applying this rule, your browser has to convert the
	domain name given in the URL to an address, in order to check
	whether the address belongs to the subnet.  Since you've
	chosen to block recursive name resolution, this rule will fail
	except for domain names for which your name server is
	authoritative; likewise for "more lines with subnets".


	Best regards,

	Niall O'Reilly
	University College Dublin IT Services