Re: [squid-users] Auto Detect Proxy

If you see it this way, you are (of course) right.
Every client pulls this information from DNS and there is no need to
push it to every client, but of course DNS tells the client the ip.
Good point...

What I meant is that the default behaviour of wpad does not require any
client configuration neither by dhcp-option nor by entering the location
of the config script except simply activating the automatic discovery
feature.

Regards, Hendrik Voigtländer

James Zuelow wrote:

> I don't follow that you don't tell the client anything.
> Using DNS is not telling the client where to find the file?
>
> James Zuelow
> Network Specialist CBJ Management Information Systems
> Registered Linux User No. 186591
> Ph: (907) 586-0239
> Fax:(907) 586-4504
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Hendrik Voigtländer [mailto:hendrik@voigtlaenders.net]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:04 AM
>>To: James Zuelow
>>Cc: 'Rick Whitley'; squid-users@squid-cache.org
>>Subject: 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/defau
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> lt.asp?url=/WINDOWS2000/en/professional/help/autodis.htm
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>>--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
>>
>>>
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Received on Wed Aug 11 2004 - 12:50:34 MDT