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

yeah...

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

> are you telling me that i have to add a record to my DNS as
>
> wpad A 192.16.15.34
>
> and in the webserver 192.16.15.34 i need to put the file wpad.dat in the
> root directory?
>
> that file should have the same syntax as proxy.pac?

it does

in my evironment proxy.uoregon.edu has a cname wpad, and it runs a
webserver with to files, autoconf.pac (for people doing manual
configuration) and wpad.dat which is a symlink to autoconf.pac...

you can take a look at the expired draft standard here:

http://www.ws.afnog.org/services/helpdesk/proxy/wpad_expired_rfc.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:56 PM
> To: Jorge Cuellar Martinez
> Cc: Chemolli Francesco (USI); 'Henrik Nordstrom'; Parimi, Venkateshwara
> Rao; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: 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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