RE: [squid-users] Re: usage of pac

it looks for wpad.dat in the root directory of the webserver that answers
to wpad.yourdomainname

joelja

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jorge Cuellar Martinez wrote:

> i've heard that Internet Explorer looks up for a DNS record to find the
> proxy configuration (or a pac file, i'm not sure) any of you knows what my
> DNS should say so IE can find my squid properly via DNS?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chemolli Francesco (USI) [mailto:ChemolliF@GruppoCredit.it]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:04 AM
> To: 'Henrik Nordstrom'; Parimi, Venkateshwara Rao
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Re: usage of pac
>
>
> > The PAC file needs to be placed on some resource accessible
> > by all your clients.
> >
> > Common choices are:
> > * A shared web server
> > * A shared file server
>
> It seems that at least some version of MS Internet Explorer
> don't like to get the pac file as a file but only over HTTP.
>
>

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