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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

telenet and proxy errors

My bother had severe problem with telenet (the local cable company) and he actually called the helpdesk while I was with him. I noticed the error they made and so could correct it. Normally they ask you to configure http://pac.telenet.be:8080 as pac file. The pack file is:


/* PAC FILE: VERSION MANAGEMENT WITH CVS
* USE CVSWEB FOR UPDATING !!!
*
* Proxy autoconfig file
*
* $Revision: 1.29 $
* $Date: 2004/04/01 06:58:30 $
*
*/

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
return "DIRECT";
}

Notice that there is no proxy configured. When this did not work they asked to configure proxy.telenet.be:8080 as a proxy without disabling the pac stuff. This also did not work. After the long call on the expensive helpdesk I tried configuring the proxy and disabling the pac. That worked.

Of course as he was using an inferior operating system as a first step he had reinstalled everything, and lost some data he had forgotten to backup.

I wonder when they will fix the pac file...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The PAC file is correct, because there is no need to use a proxy.

pvaneynd said...

Explain then if you will how it suddenly started working after I configured the proxy and de-configured the pac stuff? I even 'went back' and it would not work anymore.
telenet it just isn't internet