[squid-users] Windows Automatic Update (WAU) and non-transparent squid proxy (was Re: [squid-users] Major malfunction: Squid and Windows Update)

On 5/5/05, D & E Radel <radel@inet.net.nz> wrote:
> From: "Kevin" <kkadow@gmail.com>:
> > There are known issues where the automatic update feature may not be
> > able to make requests out to the Internet at all if you are using a
> > configured proxy server (not transparency, but setting the proxy server
> > and port in control panel, and or using PAC).
>
> Are there any ways around this? It would seem that Microsoft have borked
> their auto-update tool, if it cannot use a configured proxy.

Yes, there is a fix.

While "Windows Automatic Update" on WinXP doesn't inherently pick
up proxy settings for IE from the Control Panel, there is a command-line
tool called "proxycfg" (installed via SP2?) which can force WAU to use
a proxy. Apparently there is also a way to set the proxy for WAU via
directly manipulating the registry, if you're cool with that.

Kevin Kadow
Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 15:50:03 MDT