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essandess / easylist-pac-privoxy

EasyList Tracker and Adblocks to Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) File and Privoxy Actions and Filters
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"Configure an OpenVPN to use the proxy.pac file hosted on your LAN." #8

Closed maxcountryman closed 6 years ago

maxcountryman commented 6 years ago

Can you explain the process for doing this? Cursory Google searches don't yield much.

essandess commented 6 years ago

Why, yes!

macos-openvpn-server

maxcountryman commented 6 years ago

Well yes, I did look at that—it isn’t clear to me how the OpenVPN config consumes the .pac.

essandess commented 6 years ago

Just search the repo for "proxy.pac".

maxcountryman commented 6 years ago

So is it not possible to use the .pac with an OpenVPN client then?

essandess commented 6 years ago

It is possible. The link above shows how to configure a client or server push settings do just that.

maxcountryman commented 6 years ago

Okay thanks—it seemed like the two configs you linked were for servers exclusively.

Do you mind if I add a note to the README?

maxcountryman commented 6 years ago

As far as I can tell, push "dhcp-option PROXY_AUTO_CONFIG_URL http://192.168.1.1:8080/proxy.pac does not work with OpenVPN client configs. Would be nice if this were mentioned in the documentation.

essandess commented 6 years ago

push directives belong in server configs because the server pushes the options to the clients.

The client config setting is simply

dhcp-option PROXY_AUTO_CONFIG_URL http://192.168.1.1:8080/proxy.pac

Both server-pushed and client dhcp-option options work.

This is already well-documented in OpenVPN rtfm's.