RFE: Java Plug-in should try all proxies returned by auto-proxy script

Name: mt13159 Date: 07/16/2001


In the Java plug-in proxy document at:
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/docs/proxies.html
it says:
"the function FindProxyForURL always returns proxy information as a string. Java Plug-in extracts the setting in the following way...If 'PROXY' is in the string, it uses the first proxy setting for the connection."
However, as described in the Netscape auto-proxy documentation at:
http://devedge.netscape.com/docs/manuals/proxy/adminnt/autoconf.htm
the return value of FindProxyForURL is a list of entries separated by semicolons. If the first proxy in the list cannot be contacted, the next one should be used.
We are requesting that the plug-in implement the same behavior. That is, if the attempt to contact the first proxy fails, the next proxy in the list should be used, and so on. We have customers that require this behavior.
(Review ID: 128073)
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