Add support for Mac OSX about proxy-vole HOT 8 CLOSED

You can get the current mac OS X proxy settings via 
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Networking/Reference/SCDyn
amicStoreCopySpecific/Reference/reference.html with the function 
SCDynamicStoreCopyProxies. Since that is only a native c function, you need to 
use JNI.
You can also find an example here: 
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa2001/qa1234.html and within the 
network source for Qt4 
(http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/qt4/trunk/src/network/kernel/qnetworkproxy_mac.cpp
). Hope that helps.

Unfortunately there seem to be some problems to override the proxy settings in 
Java under OS X 
(http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2009/Jun/msg00148.html).

Thanks a lot for all this info.
I currently have no access to an Mac and have absolutly no experience with it.
JNI code loading, library format and loading, c compiler, ...
So I could try to build a library for OSX but have no chance to debug or test 
it.
Therefore support for OSX is very limited at the moment and I still hope that I 
get some production quality code contribution some day or buy a Mac one day and 
do it myself but this may take some time ;-)

Problems like the mentioned one is the reason why I do not rely on the VM proxy 
features but wrote proxy-vole

Have fun,
- Rossi

Small update of the status of this request.
I finally have access to OSX and started to implement support for OSX.
Proxy settings are stored in OSX in a plist XML file. I'm going to read the 
settings from there and setup a proxy selector in Java. This will allow me to 
support OSX without writing native code.
Initial support for this is already in the repository.

Have fun,
- Rossi

I have now deployed a new version that includes support for OSX.
It is not very well tested yet but for me it works.

Have fun,
- Rossi

I'm having some difficulties...
when I call ProxySearch.getProxySelector() under OSX using default strategies, 
i get "null" value as return. (proxy is configured either as PAC/Manual at OS 
level).
Is it a configuration problem of some kind?

Hello Liro,
Sorry for my late reply I was away for some weeks and then forgot about this 
issue.
Do you still have the problem? If yes could you please send me the following 
information from your OSX installation:
- OSX version
and the file that is located at 

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist 

This file will contain the proxy settings that are selected. I need to have a 
look at it to find out why I the parsing fails.

Please send the information at rosstauscher (et) gmx.de 

The OSX code is rather new and a little bit untested. It may be that there is 
still a bug in this.


Have fun,
- Rossi