Something about toggle proxy
It origins from my working by my own macbook.
For safety , we should surf the Internet through a proxy in company, the proxy maybe looks like “proxy.xxx.com:8080”.
And in “ great” China , in order to visit every website like quote , twitter , I must use another proxy at home.
Something trouble was happening，when I toggle the proxy I have to click “network setting”,then “advance”,then “proxy setting”,then checked the “auto proxy”, and fill the input with a location of the pac file. I finished this repeated and boring work twice a day before I find some way to figure it out.
At the first time I chose workflow of Alfred to solve this problem. It is normal to work some repeated problem out by trying workflow.
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1 . Active the “Workflow” tab on Alfred Preference and add a blank workflow by clicking the “+” button.
I used keyword to trigger the semi-automatic action of toggling proxy , and I programmed several pieces of applescript to set different proxies when I input different keywords.It looks like that:
tell application “GoAgentX” toggle proxy mode to standalone
end tell
do shell script “/usr/sbin/networksetup -setautoproxyurl ‘wi-fi’ ‘http://txp-01.xxx.com/proxy.pac'" with administrator privileges
do shell script “/usr/local/bin/npm config set proxy http://proxy.xxx.com:8080/" with administrator privileges
do shell script “/usr/sbin/networksetup -setwebproxystate ‘wi-fi’ on” with administrator privileges
do shell script “/usr/sbin/networksetup -setwebproxy ‘wi-fi’ web-proxy.oa.com 8080” with administrator privileges
display notification (“toggle success”)
I had completed the most of the toggling work automatic with program so far, which had satisfied me until I find a software named controlPlane.
ControlPlane(http://controlplaneapp.com) allows you to execute some action when it catches the signal from its listening. It can listen to the change of power , screen , network situation includes wifi , router , DNS and so on.
Now I can toggle my proxy setting totally automatic when I connect to different wifi no matter where I am.
more info about how to use control Plane : http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/take-control-with-controlplane--cms-20516
