On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Miller Bonnie L. <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on this, I’m wondering, are you using JUSTA a proxy.pac file, or is it > actually WPAD configuration pointing to a wpad.dat that locates the > proxy.pac? In IE for example, we are defining the URL directly to the > proxy.pac file (second option), and not using any DNS publishing (Our > network admin is heading up this project).
Some things (apps/components/browsers/whatever) don't get their proxy settings from IE/Windows. So if you've manually defined a PAC script URL in Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> "Use automatic configuration script", or by GPO, some things may not be aware of that. Even when there is an option in the program for "Use Windows" or whatever, I've found that sometimes doesn't work. Some things which are not aware of the IE/Windows proxy settings will do DNS-based WPAD on their own. Perhaps Java is one or both of the above. The version of Java I have installed a control panel. If I open that, and go to the "General" tab and click "Network Settings", I have options to use browser settings, manually defined a proxy server, or manually define a PAC URL. If you fill in the URL of your PAC script there, does Java begin working? If it works, you know it's an issue with Java not getting settings from OS/WPAD. WPAD is really easy to set-up, if you already have the PAC script. You just need a DNS name "wpad" in a search path domain, and then a web server at that address which redirects to your PAC script in response to "/wpad.dat". -- Ben
