PAC file considerations

You should be aware of the following support considerations if you are using PAC files with

BlackBerry Proxy

BlackBerry UEM

supports the following PAC file directives:

DIRECT

PROXY (treated as HTTPS proxy - connection established using HTTP CONNECT)

HTTPS (connection established using HTTP CONNECT)

BlackBerry UEM

doesn't support the following PAC file directives:

BLOCK (treated as DIRECT)

SOCKS (connection error will occur)

SOCKS4 (connection error will occur)

SOCKS5 (connection error will occur)

HTTP (connection error will occur)

Custom "NATIVE" directive defined by

BlackBerry Access

(connection error will occur)

BlackBerry UEM

has the following additional limitations for PAC files:

The dnsDomainIs function can't include the "_" and "*" characters.

The shExpMatch function can't include the expressions "[0-9]", "?", "/^d", or "d+"

The option to strip the path and query from the URI is not supported.

BlackBerry Proxy

downloads and caches the PAC file to improve performance. The PAC cache is updated every 24 hours.

If a new PAC file is published and you need to update the cache immediately, you can navigate to

Settings > Infrastructure > BlackBerry Router and Proxy,

expand the

Global settings

section, and click

Update PAC cache