Re: Squid and Netscape's shortcut for URLs of the form www.<domain>.com

> We've got a test Squid server deployed as a cache here at the
> U of O (running Alpha 17), and one of our users noted that when
> using Squid, he no longer has the ability to simply enter:
>
> yahoo
>
> from within Netscape 3.0 when he wants to go to www.yahoo.com, for
> example.

Use Automatic Proxy Configuration in Netscape Navigator
(see http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html)
and have at least an "isPlainHostName(host)" condition, e.g. from
my cache.pac:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
    if (isPlainHostName(host) || // all local hosts
        dnsDomainIs(host, ".itr.ch"))
        return "DIRECT";

    else if (url.substring(0, 5) == "http:" || // protocols we cache
             url.substring(0, 4) == "ftp:" ||
             url.substring(0, 7) == "gopher:")
        return "PROXY proxy.itr.ch:3128";

    else if (url.substring(0, 5) == "wais:") // wais gateway
        return "PROXY www.w3.org:8001";

    else
        return "DIRECT"; // all other protocols
}

Regards,
    Markus
Received on Thu Sep 12 1996 - 13:15:26 MDT