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

[Nottingham, Mark (Australia)]

Just did a trace; it does indeed use WPAD by default (although the
'automatically detect settings' button is off... odd).

I only hope that Netscape can swallow its collective pride and implement a
MS-backed standard; this is a good one.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nottingham, Mark (Australia)
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> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 2:12 PM
> To: 'Dax Kelson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: have proxies hit the big time? (fwd)
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> 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
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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