On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 07:11:30PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:57:28 -0800
> From: John Giannandrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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Hope this works better than auto proxy in 4 and 3. We found that that clients
were still occasionally accessing port 80 directly, despite being PAC'ed with
no DIRECT entries. This caused helpdesk problems as we have a redirect to
a web page telling them to configure their proxies if they try a direct port 80
access (obviously this infuriates the average user and helpdesk operator if
the proxies are configured and they still get the "configure your proxies"
message in their browser).
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