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

Based on @Jaeh answer I used the code below. Note that SunAutoProxyHandler implements AbstractAutoProxyHandler and there is an alternative concrete implementation called PluginAutoProxyHandler but that implementation does not appear to be as robust:

    BrowserProxyInfo b = new BrowserProxyInfo();
    b.setType(ProxyType.AUTO);
    b.setAutoConfigURL("http://example.com/proxy.pac");

    SunAutoProxyHandler handler = new SunAutoProxyHandler();
    handler.init(b);

    ProxyInfo[] ps = handler.getProxyInfo(new URL(url));
    for(ProxyInfo p : ps){
        System.out.println(p.toString());
    }