On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Chris Wilcox wrote: > County have now dictated that all browsers which access the Internet via a > County Council connection must use a proxy.pac file to gain their internet > settings. The use of a local cache such as Squid will no longer be > supported, and apparently I will be unable to point Squid at the upstream > proxy IP and port, as this will be be unavailable.
proxy.pac is just a Javascript which returns the proxy IP:PORT to use. The parent proxies does not really notice how you found this IP:PORT value, but it is possible that the proxy.pac is using several different proxies depending on various conditions. Squid does not have the required Javascript engine to parse proxy.pac files, but in most cases you can do the parsing for it and convert this into suitable cache_peer and cache_peer_access directives. REgards Henrik
