RE: have proxies hit the big time? (fwd)

[Nottingham, Mark (Australia)]

>From what I saw in the betas, WPAD support was turned off by default.
Anybody know if this the case in the release version?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dax Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 1:12 PM
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> Subject: have proxies hit the big time? (fwd)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:57:28 -0800
> From: John Giannandrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: have proxies hit the big time?
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> The newly released IE5 has a proxy autodiscovery feature which has
> significant practical implications for global bandwidth use.
> 
> Its hard to know how many web clients are proxied today.  Its 
> probably much
> less than 50% (including AOL users).  The main reason appears 
> to be that most
> clients are not configured for it by default.
> 
> With IE5, if ISPs create a CNAME called wpad and provide a 
> file called wpad.dat
> on port 80 that uses the Netscape proxy guidelines:
> http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html
> Then IE5 will automatically use those proxies for HTTP.  This 
> is as transparent to
> the end user as dynamic IP assignment or HTTP redirection.
> 
> 12 months from now when the majority of PCs are shipping with 
> this as the
> default browser, it would seem that proxies will be 
> significantly more relevant 
> to traffic shaping than they are today.
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