Re: Pointcast

From: Rodney van den Oever <roever@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 05:50:36 +0100

Mmmm, this is a great way to disallow PointCast, much easier than filtering
URL's with Squid!

:-)

You might try it again with a manually configured browser.

Rodney van den Oever / roever@nse.simac.nl / +31 318 623047
'In God we trust; all others must provide data.' - Arlen P. Walker

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <signal@shreve.net>
To: Squid Users Mailing List <squid-users@nlanr.net>
Date: maandag 9 maart 1998 22:44
Subject: Pointcast

>It would seem that when users run Pointcast and select "use Microsoft
>Internet Explorer as browser", and MSIE is configured to use an
>auto-config file which points them to our squid, that pointcast wont work.
>
>Point cast will work if you go into MSIE and tell it "dont use proxy".
>But otherwise, it appears to break, because its trying to grab files at
>127.0.0.1/blah/blah and failing, anyone know how to fix this?
>
>Brian
>
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