Re: configure web proxy via DHCP server
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:56:38AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On the client side, however, at least dhcp3-client requires recompiling
> for each option you want to export to the client hook scripts. This was
You do? I was kindof hoping that with /etc/dhcp3/dhclient*-hooks.d/,
it would be just a matter of adding an extra script that runs...
> recently done for the netbios options that Samba uses. I know there are
> many more unexported options that are potentially useful to other
> packages, including ntp timeserver information; it might be nice to
> gather a list of them all at once for submission to the dhcp3
> maintainers, so they're not constantly recompiling to special-case each
> attribute.
Sounds like a good idea...
So we can put the proxy server on the DHCP server, in the form
of a reference to a PAC file.
We can (with modifications) retrieve the reference to the PAC
file on the client.
Then what?
I think that there are two cases:
1. browsers that don't support PAC files, eg. lynx, links, and
w3m probably don't (correct me if I am wrong).
2. browsers that do support PAC files, but need to be configured
to use it for each user on the system.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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