On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:20:09PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
So I was writing a neat proxy.pac to put on my laptop so it could adjust what web proxy to use depending on my location.Basically, I wanted to do something like this : if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0")) { return "my office's proxy settings"; } return "DIRECT"; But the function myIpAddress() always returns "127.0.0.1". HOW USEFUL IS THAT.
This is probably the result of a mildly broken OS config, not Firefox. Assuming you are using some *nix variety, check /etc/hosts. Most Linux distributions tend to create a line like 127.0.0.1 localhost whatever.machine.name.you.chose.on.installation which might be helpful on a laptop that you frequently move from one network to another but is unhelpful for a workstation with a fixed or dhcp-assigned network address. If you do have such a line in /etc/hosts, you can fix your problem by simply removing your laptop's hostname it. -- Bruce Remember you're a Womble.
