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Re: Changing clients to automatically find their proxy?



On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:09:07 +0200, Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

>>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.

 Do we want MSIE5 roaming in our networks anyway?!
It's 9 years old, and only version 5.01 is still 
supported by Microsoft, and only on Windows 2000 SP4.
(source: Wikipedia)

 If MSIE5 fails to work, it may serve the local admin 
an opportunity to suggest an upgrade. 

-- 
Herman Robak


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