Re: [squid-users] Auto Detect Proxy

WPAD (thats the word to put in google :-) is buggy in some IE-version.
You dont need to tell the client anything at all, see bottom of the link:
<cut>
When using DNS, Internet Explorer constructs a default URL template
based on the host name wpad. For example: http://wpad.domain.com/wpad.dat
</cut>

You *can* alter this using dhcp-options, but it is not compulsory.
However, the browser may cut the last letter, i.e. proxy.pa instead of
proxy.pac - I used a couple of redirects in the webserver to fix this.

Regards, Hendrik Voigtländer

James Zuelow wrote:
> You need to set up an .ins or .pac file, and tell IE how to find it.
>
> See:
>
> --link may wrap--
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/professional/help/default.asp?url=/WINDOWS2000/en/professional/help/autodis.htm
> --link may wrap--
>
> James Zuelow
> Network Specialist CBJ Management Information Systems
> Registered Linux User No. 186591
> Ph: (907) 586-0239
> Fax:(907) 586-4504
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Whitley [mailto:rickwh@dbu.edu]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:29 AM
>>To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>>Subject: [squid-users] Auto Detect Proxy
>>
>>
>>How does the Auto-Detect Proxy setting work in IE? In testing I can't
>>get the browser to find squid.
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>rick...
>>Rom.5:8
>>
Received on Wed Aug 11 2004 - 11:04:37 MDT