Re: Squid, Proxy.pac, and Mobile Computers.Z

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, James A. Mutter wrote:

> Situation B:
> Same user takes his laptop home, to a foreign office, any place to
> where he cannot access the proxy server or it is inconvenient to
> access the proxy server. I don't want the user mucking around in the
> Netscape preferences changing his settings from "Connect using proxy"
> to "Direct connection". Will Netscape complain when it can't find the
> auto-config stored at "http://blah.foo.org/proxy.pac", or can it
> somehow be configured to ignore the proxy settings when it can't find
> the .pac?

If you use a transparent proxy, you won't have to have any proxy
settings at all in netscape. Whether he's behind the firewall or
on a direct connection, he'll never know (either will netscape ;)

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Robert Dale
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