Re: Automatic proxy configuration

[Patrick Winnertz <patrick.winnertz@skolelinux.org>]

Am Freitag, den 09.02.2007, 20:19 +0100 schrieb RalfGesellensetter:
> Am Freitag 09 Februar 2007 19:20 schrieb Patrick Winnertz:
> > I think it will do no harm if we use this automatic configuration
> > script.
> > Browsers which use the env vars, will use them, browsers which
> > doesn't know about them will look for this script. everything will
> > work out of the box ;-) and i think this is what we want.
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> great. Just a thing to remember: If you happen to have configured your 
> proxy the right way, then there are other issues you have to fight:
> 
> You have to define some exclusions to the rule because squid on webcache 
> fails to serve requests to tjener (I think) or to its webmin interface 
> (port 10000).
Webmin will not be there in etch ;-) 
But of course you are right, there have to be exceptions for using the
proxy

>  If this is not possible with wpad, then we could try to 
> make squid to allow access to localhost/tjener. At this point, we might 
> want to do some more optimizations for squid configuration:
> - prepare roomwise access control
> - disable caching of pages whose caching is useless (volatile pages, big 
> files, ...)
> 
> --> http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap28sec235.html
> --> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CacheManager
Greetings
Patrick

> 
> Regards
> Ralf
> 
>