Re: [squid-users] Netscape to Squid conversion Issues

Set up an apache server serving the PAC file, and then use the
httpd_accel_host directive to tell Squid to forward HTTP server requests
to this server.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
mcnatton@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> Here's a situation we're facing and I'm curious if anyone has some
> insight into how we might approach this problem.
> 
> We currently have approximately 10,000 pcs, a very large portion of
> which are configured in one of two ways.
> 
> A. Netscape browsers with manual proxy servers set up for http and
> https as proxy.host.net:8080
> B. Netscape browsers with automatic proxy configuration with URL
> setup as proxy.host.net:8080 (note they're the same).
> 
> We're also in the process of changing from netscape admin-server and
> netscape proxy server to apache and squid version 2.3.STABLE4 with
> smartfilter extensions. All of this is running on Solaris 2.7.
> 
> This setup runs fine when pointing to the netscape admin-server/proxy
> server configuration.
> 
> The problem I'm having is when I point one of the "automatic"
> configured pcs to one of the boxes running SQUID. At startup, the
> user receives a message saying the automatic configuration has failed
> and on the squid server I see the following access.log entry.
> 
> 10.49.0.145 - - [30/Apr/2001:16:28:40 -0400] "GET / HTTP/0.0" 400 1094
> NONE:NONE
> 
> >From the docs, it's clear that I need to provide a proxy.pac file
> telling the users what their automatic configuration should be. The
> problem I'm having is how to provide this info and provide
> filtering/caching all from the same port?
> 
> Having all the users change their configuration to point to another
> port or host isn't an attractive option (120+ sites, 6000 pcs likely
> to be touched). If I must do that, I'd much prefer to cut over to
> transparent proxying so we don't face this problem again in the
> future and it's trivial for the end users to reconfigure.
> 
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- steve