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Is it possible to use PAC in Puppy?

I would like to use socks5 proxy just for a few sites which are blocked in my region.
While searching the web I came across privoxy (privoxy.org is blocked too) but it is way over my head to configure it. I read about pac which looks easier to configure with examples from the web. Unfortunately it didn't work.

Do I have to install anything to make it work"

Remastered Slacko-64 no save file (pupmode 13)
Kernel 4.19.164

Any suggestion would be appreciated

eddy_norton wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:29 am

Is it possible to use PAC in Puppy?

For Chrome-compatible browsers (my name is Legion; for We Are Many), you can set the PAC on the command line when launching the browser. Or add it to the startup script, if you have one. Here is an example for Russia and sites banned in Russia. For your location, find and change the link option for your location:

--proxy-pac-url="https://antizapret.prostovpn.org/proxy.pac"

@Grey

Thank you very much.
It's going to take me a while to figure it out, but now I know the PAC file is working in puppy )

I was unsuccessful with the pac files.
I tried my luck with privoxy again and found the solution here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Privoxy
Now even netsurf which doesn't have SOCKS5 capabilities is working fine.