How to make acl work on Windows?

[rundexz]

Hello. I am using the --acl option of sslocal.exe and I cannot make it work. I have used an example like:

[bypass_all]

[proxy_list]
(^|\.)example\.com$

But I cannot get sslocal.exe to proxy example.com Using the system proxy on my browser, I can visit example.com but the proxy is not used. Though, if I remove the --acl option, the site is proxied into the shadowsocks proxy as intended. I have noticed something else. I am using a python script to check if the proxy is working or not against bing.com I would simply do requests.get() using the shadowsocks proxy IP:PORT. With --acl used, I get:

Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'

Though, without using --acl the test proceeds as expected without errors. Note that I originally added bing.com ((^|.)bing.com$) to proxy_list list of acl. Though, adding it or not adding would still result in the failed to establish error. I am not sure why this happens.

I would appreciate any information you can provide.