My squid server has apache on it as well. The wpad.dat (and proxy.pac) is on
the squid/apache server.
The only time this prompt appears is when users are using sites with the
NSPlayer/9.00.00.2980. I'm getting the header from the squid useragent.log
file. The prompt is attached. The squid prompt box asks for the domain name
right?
Guess I may be barking up the wrong tree here.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Elsen" <mark.elsen@gmail.com>
To: "Terry Dobbs" <terry.dobbs@rogers.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 6:27 AM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [squid-users] Certain header not authenticating
> Hey,
>
> I am running squid/squidGuard with NTLM authentication. Everything works
> perfectly, except there is a site that some employees use for interactive
> training. It seems when these employees go to this site they are
> continually
> prompted for username/password with wpad.domainname.com as the realm.
>
> After investigating, the useragent log is showing this:
> 192.168.12.102 - - [15/Feb/2006:15:30:49 -0500] "GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1"
> 200
> 251 "-" "NSPlayer/9.00.00.2980"
>
> It seems that the NSPlayer header is somehow not retrieving the wpad file
> correctly? If the users click cancel nothing happens - they can continue,
> but it pops up when they click to go to the next page. This is a major
> annoyance for some users, and has become a headache for me. I haven't
> explicitly set anything in squid.conf to only allow certain headers, im
> not
> even sure if you can. I have searched hell and high-water, but to no
> avail.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
- WPAD is normally used for automatic proxy detection in IE.
- I don't understand why the remote webserver , would offer a WPAD.dat
files
for 'internet users', that doesn't make sense.
- The remote webserver may be broken.
M.
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