Quick and dirty Win32 web browser ON/OFF proxy toggle, tested with FireFox and IE6. Useful when switching between networks at work and home (for me, 5/7 days). As always, back up important files before risking them.
use strict; use warnings; my $proxy_on='user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);'; my $prefs_js='C:/Documents and Settings/EdwardG/Application Data/Phoen +ix/Profiles/default/7h4tw1oc.slt/prefs.js'; open my $p,'<',$prefs_js or die $!; my @prefs = <$p>; close $p; my @prefs_minus_proxy = grep !/\Q$proxy_on\E/, @prefs; my $proxy_was_off = ($#prefs == $#prefs_minus_proxy); open $p,'>',$prefs_js or die $!; print $p @prefs_minus_proxy; print $p $proxy_on if $proxy_was_off; close $p; # Internet Explorer 6 my %regHash; use Win32::TieRegistry ( TiedHash => \%regHash ); # thanks tye! $regHash{"CUser\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Interne +t Settings\\ProxyEnable"} =[ $proxy_was_off ? "0x0001" : "0x0000", "REG_DWORD" ]; $|=1; print "Proxy is now ", $proxy_was_off ? 'ON' : 'OFF';

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