Metadata fields in Acrobat

[gordon142]

I wrote the following shell script to grab proxy information for OS X:

– Get proxy settings
try
do shell script “cp /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist ~/Library/Preferences/theproxies.plist”
set ProxyTest to do shell script “defaults read theproxies | grep HTTPEnable”
if ProxyTest contains “1” then
try
set HttpProxyOutput to do shell script “defaults read theproxies | grep HTTPProxy”

				set HttpProxyOutput to do shell script "defaults read theproxies | grep HTTPProxy | head -1 | perl -ne 'print /"(.*?)"/'"
				set HttpProxy to paragraph 1 of HttpProxyOutput as Unicode text
				
				set HttpPortOutput to do shell script "defaults read theproxies | grep HTTPPort"
				set HttpPort to word 3 of paragraph 1 of HttpPortOutput as Unicode text
				set useProxy to 1
				do shell script "rm ~/Library/Preferences/theproxies.plist"
				
			on error errText
				display alert errText
				set useProxy to 0
				
				do shell script "rm ~/Library/Preferences/theproxies.plist"
			end try
		else
			do shell script "rm ~/Library/Preferences/theproxies.plist"
			set useProxy to 0
		end if
	end try
	-- end Get proxy settings

A bit of a clumsy way of doing it, I’m sure, but I’m not too experienced with getting data from property list files.

The problem with this method is that if the user has created multiple network locations, the script is likely to grab information for the wrong one. The ID string for the current network location is stored with the “CurrentSet” property in the Preferences.plist file, but I can’t find a good way to use this information to get the correct network proxy details.

Can anyway recommend a way to accomplish this task?