netscape proxy.pac setup

Greetings:

I have read the faq about using the proxy.pac javascript file to load
proxy information to the Netscape client. THis used to work before when I
was using the NEtscape proxy server. Netscape's proxy had a pointer entry
to tell where the actual proxy.pac file was on its PROXY SERVER area. The
docs for squid all point to putting this proxy.pac file on a WEB server
and not on the squid proxy server area.

My problem is that I don't want to ask every user to change their Netscape
proxy preference to point to another url. I want their url to point to:

proxy.company.edu:8080 just like before with the Netscape proxy.

THis is what they have now while I am running netscapes proxy server. I
want to be able to now run squid on port 8080 as proxy.company.edu:8080.

FRom the faq's it looks like I must point to the actual file as well:

proxy.company.edu:8080/proxy.pac

Is it possible to setup squid such that a url for teh auto proxy setup is:

proxy.company.edu:8080

and squid will know where to find this proxy.pac file and load it to the
netscape client?

Thanks

Jim

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Jim Chivas, Computing/Network Services email: jchivas@langara.bc.ca
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Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 17:52:10 MST