I don't know why that "Network Settings applet" wouldn't set the http_proxy environment variable,
but:
a PAC file should be run for each url, because you can have different proxies for each and one of them
the http_proxy variable can not handle this, it's used for "one proxy-rules-all" setups
In my opininon the two things are not compatible, http_proxy and it's kind is not able to handle your exceptions from your PAC.
Hi Neil,
I don't know why that "Network Settings applet" wouldn't set the http_proxy environment variable,
but:
a PAC file should be run for each url, because you can have different proxies for each and one of them
the http_proxy variable can not handle this, it's used for "one proxy-rules-all" setups
In my opininon the two things are not compatible, http_proxy and it's kind is not able to handle your exceptions from your PAC.
Regards,
András