Re: Changing clients to automatically find their proxy?

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Florian Reitmeir]
> > i do it know for some years, the whole thing is based on the internet
> > explorer feature to find proxies.
> >
> > and there is some goog documentation from microsoft for it:
> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713344.aspx
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934864
> >
> > there are two ways..
> >    - via DHCP (some IE have a bug, so they cut of the last char of the
> >      option 252)
> >    - via DNS  
> >
> > and IMHO firefox is only using the DNS method
>
> Right.  If I get it, the DHCP part is already done.  The DNS part is
> done by adding a wpad DNS alias pointing to the server with the
> wpad.dat file, making sure the URL http://wpad/wpad.dat is working.
> Is this correct?

nearly, in the wild to want to have the links like:
http://wpad/wpad.dat
http://wpad/wpad.da

because IE 5 is cutting the last char of the url.

> If that is enough for the DNS method, all we need to do is add a CNAME
> from wpad to tjener.  The wpad.dat file is already in place.

yes

> Are there command line tools to process wpad javascript files?

none that i know of.

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Florian Reitmeir