Toggling Proxy on Browsers

One of the pain points of using Sahi is to remember to set the proxy on the browser while testing and removing it later.

There are a few tools which alleviate this well.

Firefox:

Use Proxy Button to toggle the proxy in one click from the Firefox toolbar.

Internet Explorer:

Use ProxyPal to toggle proxy from the IE toolbar.

Use /tools/toggle_IE_proxy.exe to toggle proxy.

Command Line:
toggle_IE_proxy.exe enable
toggle_IE_proxy.exe disable

Ant:

<antcall target="proxyon"/>
<antcall target="proxyoff"/>

<target name="proxyon">
<exec executable="tools/toggle_IE_proxy.exe">
<arg value="enable"/>
</exec>
</target>

<target name="proxyoff">
<exec executable="tools/toggle_IE_proxy.exe">
<arg value="disable"/>
</exec>
</target>

Full ant file

Sahi Nightly Build 2006-08-06 released

This build has the following added features:

* File upload support
* Proxy toggling through ant/command line for Internet Explorer
* _expectConfirm(boolean) and _lastConfirm() apis added.

Special thanks to Sriram Narayanan (Ram to ThoughtWorkers) who created toggle_IE_proxy.exe, a 34 KB file of immense use to Sahi users.

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