How to use automatic proxy configuration script in Java

Question

My Internet Explorer is set to have an automatic proxy file(so-called PAC) for web access. Is there a way to use this on my Java program, also ?

My below Java code

Answer 1

Java does not have any built-in support for parsing the JS PAC file. You are on your own. What you can do is download that file and parse the proxy host from it. You should read this.