Re: Automatic Setup of browsers

Hi John!

The only Browser know which uses automatic-proxy-config is the
Netscape-Browser.

Your WWW-demon needs an additional MIME-type.
Using the Apache-Server or NCSA-Server you have to add in your srm.conf file

AddType application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig .pac

Further you need a PAC-file, which shows the browser which Squid to use for
certain URL's.
This Java-Script similiar file was documented at the Netscape-Site.

http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_3.0/management/p
roxy/index.html
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_3.0/index.html

Swen

At 13:40 24.10.96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, I am new to this list, and as such am probably asking a question that
>has been asked before. I have cheked the FAQ, and found nothing that
>answers my question. My question is How do I make it so that users can
>configure their browsers automatically to use the proxy.
>What I mean is currently users must manually configure their browsers to
>use the proxy by adding the ip and port of the proxy to the options.
>
>TIA :)
>
>John Timon:
> Technical Dept. Head Netrics INC.
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