
Company News
Socket Joins New OpenJS Program to Fund Node.js Security Work
Socket is joining the OpenJS Security Stewardship Program to fund Node.js vulnerability research, maintainer remediation, and security releases.
pac-proxy-agent
Advanced tools
http.Agent implementation for HTTP and HTTPSThis module provides an http.Agent implementation that retreives the specified
PAC proxy file and uses it to resolve which HTTP, HTTPS, or
SOCKS proxy, or if a direct connection should be used to connect to the
HTTP endpoint.
It is designed to be be used with the built-in http and https modules.
import * as http from 'http';
import { PacProxyAgent } from 'pac-proxy-agent';
const agent = new PacProxyAgent('pac+https://cloudup.com/ceGH2yZ0Bjp+');
http.get('http://nodejs.org/api/', { agent }, (res) => {
console.log('"response" event!', res.headers);
res.pipe(process.stdout);
});
The proxy-agent package is similar to pac-proxy-agent in that it provides a way to resolve proxy configurations for HTTP/HTTPS requests. However, proxy-agent supports multiple proxy protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC, making it more versatile for different proxy scenarios.
The http-proxy-agent package is designed to provide an HTTP agent capable of connecting to an HTTP proxy. Unlike pac-proxy-agent, it does not handle PAC files but is specifically tailored for HTTP proxy connections.
Similar to http-proxy-agent, the https-proxy-agent package is focused on providing an HTTPS agent for proxy connections. It is specifically for HTTPS requests and does not support PAC file resolution like pac-proxy-agent.
The socks-proxy-agent package is a SOCKS (Socket Secure) proxy `http.Agent` implementation for HTTP and HTTPS. This package is useful for routing traffic through SOCKS proxy servers, which is a different use case compared to the PAC file support provided by pac-proxy-agent.
FAQs
A PAC file proxy `http.Agent` implementation for HTTP
The npm package pac-proxy-agent receives a total of 29,136,474 weekly downloads. As such, pac-proxy-agent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that pac-proxy-agent demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.

Company News
Socket is joining the OpenJS Security Stewardship Program to fund Node.js vulnerability research, maintainer remediation, and security releases.

Security News
Two compromised GitHub Actions were re-enabled with malicious tags intact, exposing thousands of downstream repositories to Mini Shai-Hulud.

Research
/Security News
A malicious Firefox extension fetches its payload after installation to evade detection, steal Google session cookies, and automate account takeover.