Re: [squid-users] Auto Detect Proxy

[Hendrik Voigtl�nder]

If you see it this way, you are (of course) right.
Every client pulls this information from DNS and there is no need to 
push it to every client, but of course DNS tells the client the ip.
Good point...

What I meant is that the default behaviour of wpad does not require any 
client configuration neither by dhcp-option nor by entering the location 
of the config script except simply activating the automatic discovery 
feature.

Regards, Hendrik Voigtl�nder
James Zuelow wrote:
I don't follow that you don't tell the client anything.
Using DNS is not telling the client where to find the file?
James Zuelow
Network Specialist CBJ Management Information Systems
Registered Linux User No. 186591               
Ph: (907) 586-0239
Fax:(907) 586-4504


-----Original Message-----
From: Hendrik Voigtl�nder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:04 AM
To: James Zuelow
Cc: 'Rick Whitley'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Auto Detect Proxy
WPAD (thats the word to put in google :-) is buggy in some IE-version.
You dont need to tell the client anything at all, see bottom 
of the link:
<cut>
When using DNS, Internet Explorer constructs a default URL template 
based on the host name wpad. For example: 
http://wpad.domain.com/wpad.dat
</cut>

You *can* alter this 
using dhcp-options, but it is not compulsory.
However, the browser may cut the last letter, i.e. proxy.pa instead of 
proxy.pac - I used a couple of redirects in the webserver to fix this.

Regards, Hendrik Voigtl�nder
James Zuelow wrote:
You need to set up an .ins or .pac file, and tell IE how to find it.
See:
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/professional/help/defau
lt.asp?url=/WINDOWS2000/en/professional/help/autodis.htm
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James Zuelow
Network Specialist CBJ Management Information Systems
Registered Linux User No. 186591               
Ph: (907) 586-0239
Fax:(907) 586-4504



-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Whitley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [squid-users] Auto Detect Proxy
How does the Auto-Detect Proxy setting work in IE? In testing I can't
get the browser to find squid.
thanks
rick...
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