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--- doc:appunti:linux:sa:proxy_debug [2011/09/15 17:41] – niccolo
+++ doc:appunti:linux:sa:proxy_debug [2011/09/15 17:45] (current) – niccolo
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-====== Substitute HTML or JavaScript with a proxy ======
+====== Substitute HTML or JavaScript on the fly ======
-Using this recipe - while browsing a remote server - you can trick your browser into taking one file (JavaScript, HTML, image, ecc.) from a web server controlled by you instead of from the original server.
+Using this recipe - while browsing a remote server - you can trick your browser into taking one file (JavaScript, HTML, image, ecc.) from a web server controlled by you, instead of from the original server.
 This can be useful to test some changes on a production server without actually touching the deployed code.
+It works by telling the browser to use a proxy for a particular URL, and configure a fake web server to serve that content, eventually canged.
 Create a file **''proxy.pac''** and store it into your web server:
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 Configure the browser to use automatic proxy configuration, and give **''%%http://your.server.org/proxy.pac%%''** as the URL.
-**NOTE:** This trick does not work with Internet Explorer, because it caches the proxy configuration on a per-server basis. If one page from the server was got via proxy, all the subsequent pages will be too.
+**NOTE:** This trick **does not work with Internet Explorer**, because it caches the proxy configuration on a per-server basis. If one page from the server was got via proxy, all the subsequent pages will be too.