Change Proxy wo UI Scripting?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Is it possible to change proxy settings without using UI Scripting?

#2

cirno,

It seems there is.

There’s a command line program scselect


do shell script "/usr/sbin/scselect 'location'"

scselect without parameters returns the list of locations and indicates the active one. I tried putting the return results in a variable without success. I got an AppleScript runtime error. Then you could have a dialog where you could choose or you could have the script switch between 2. Maybe someoe can help further.

Gary

#3

Hi Gary,

at least in Tiger, "/usr/sbin/ " is not necessary, just “scselect” is sufficient.
You can get a list with all available network locations with

set NetworkLocations to do shell script "scselect 2>&1 | grep '^ ' 2>&1 | cut -f 2 -d '(' | cut -f 1 -d ')'"
#4

Hi cirno,

as Gary wrote,
changing location with built-in command line scselect is the most elegant solution

#5

Thanks, but i’m trying to find solution without changing location.