Re: squid and autoconfig

From: Igor Sysoev <maillist@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:28:45 +0400

Julian Richardson wrote in message ...
>>> You need to serve it off the webserver with the mime type
>>> application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig
>
>I'm using an autoconfig script here, which works fine in Netscape 3.01 -
>does anyone know which other browsers are supported though? (main ones
>here are IE 3.02, IE 4.x, IE 5.x, Netscape 4.0x and Netscape 4.5)
>
>I've heard rumours from people here of it failing on some versions of
>Netscape but working on others. Someone mentioned some kind of hack to
>get this to work with IE - what's involved there? It's be nice to
>standardise on one script held on a server if possible!!

I used it with NN 3.x, 4.x, IE 3.02, 4.01, 5.0.
So I know the following bugs:
NN 4.01 (I doesn't check another versions):
  if (myIpAddress () == "192.168.1.11")
doesn't work correctly.

IE 3.02 (I doesn't check 4.x and 5.x)
  doesn't understand shExpMatch
IE 4.0 SP1:
  http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q187/7/70.asp

Igoer Sysoev
Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 06:27:48 MDT

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