Thanks Henrik! I actually received my answer earlier today. I didn't completely catch his name due to a noisy environment, but the assistance was much appreciated, and I do have things functioning almost the way I want. Unfortunately, the rest is beyond my control.
Thanks again! Scott Wrosch email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:19 PM > To: Scott Wrosch > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Local Servers Question > > Scott Wrosch wrote: > > > Is there a way in Squid (and I may have missed it if there, because I > > can't find it) to have it tell the client that the server that it's > > trying to request is a local server, and that it shouldn't use the > > proxy? Kind of like that little check box in Internet Explorer. > > Nope. > > If the client has sent the request to the proxy the proxy either has to > process the request, or give an error back to the user. > > > Or, if not, is there a way (whether it be through a batch file or a > > server script or something) to set it so that IE is automatically > > configured to bypass the proxy for a specific site? > > Sure. Many ways. Which one is least hard to implement depends heavily on > your environment. > > If the browsers are already configured to use a proxy configuration > script then just update the script with instructions on what do do on > requests for the domain. > > If not you will need to find some way to have a small program executed > on all client stations to reconfigure the browser proxy settings. This > can be run from a domain logon script or similar if your users are > logging on to a domain. > > Alternatively you can set up access controls in the proxy denying access > to the domain and return an error with instructions on the > reconfigurations needed instructing the user how to make the needed > changes. > > If you have a distributed administration framework such as SMS or > anything similar then the automatic change of the client configurations > may be possible to do via this also. > > Regards > Henrik
