Re: browser autoconfiguration

[Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:19:41PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote:
> what's the way to auto configure proxy informations in a browser via an 
> url ?

You write a proxy.pac file (in JavaScript) and configure your web server
to use the right MIME type for it (application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig).
For more detailed information and examples, see:

http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/x1321.html

http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

Then you configure your browser to use that script for automatic proxy
settings, test to make sure it's working correctly, and pretty much
forget it until you make a change to your proxy.

-- 
Michael Heironimus