# pseudo-code for proxy selection ## Suppose we have 6 proxy definitions + Default: ### Proxy foo1 a. http proxy on 123.123.123.123:8080 b. username/password auth b. whitelist pattern "*.google.com" c. blacklist pattern "foo.google.com" ### Proxy foo2 a. socks proxy on 999.999.99.999:1080 b. username/password auth c. whitelist pattern "*.facebook.com" ### Proxy foo3 a. PAC at https://192.168.1.1/proxy.pac b. no username/password auth c. whitelist pattern "*.internalstuffs.zzz" (intranet address) ### Proxy foo4 a. PAC at https://192.168.1.2/proxy.pac b no username/password auth c. whitelist pattern "*.internalstuffs.yyy" (intranet address) ### Proxy foo5 a. System settings b. no username/password auth (no applicable for system settings anyway) c. whitelist pattern "*.bar.com" ### Proxy foo6 a. WPAD (auto-detect, not supported by Firefox proxyAPI right now) b. no username/password auth (no applicable for system settings anyway) c. whitelist pattern "*.bar.com" ### Default a. Set to DIRECT (no proxy) b. no username/password auth c. no patterns -- not supported by FoxyProxy ## User sets mode to "patterns" ### Suppose URL about to be loaded by browser is https://www.google.com/ http proxy on 123.123.123.123:8080 is used to load the URL ```const proxySettings = { proxyType: "manual", http: "http://123.123.123.123:8080", httpProxyAll: true, autoLogin: true }; proxy.settings.set(proxySettings)``` ### Suppose URL about to be loaded by browser is https://foo.google.com/ This matches the blacklist pattern in proxy `foo1`. Blacklist patterns take precedence over whitelist patterns. So `foo1` is not used to load this URL. The other proxy patterns are checked. None match, so `Default` is used. ```const proxySettings = { proxyType: "none", autoLogin: true, httpProxyAll: true // I don't know if this is necessary but cannot hurt }; proxy.settings.set(proxySettings)``` ### Suppose URL about to be loaded by browser is https://www.facebook.com/index.html socks proxy on 999.999.99.999:1080 is used to load the URL ### Suppose URL about to be loaded by browser is https://internalstuffs.zzz/payroll/my-paycheck.pdf https://192.168.1.1/proxy.pac is used to load the URL. FoxyProxy doesn't know what this PAC is doing. Maybe it has its own URL pattern matching, maybe not. Does not matter. ```const proxySettings = { autoConfigUrl: pacUrl that user specified autoLogin: true, httpProxyAll: true // I don't know if this is necessary but cannot hurt }; proxy.settings.set(proxySettings)```