Just FYI, I've not played with WPAD nor reviewed the (expired) draft, but it does seem to be in common use, including here. The bloke who sets it up where I work (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) just has a DNS alias pointing wpad.rmit.edu.au to an existing web server which supplies the config file from it's doc root. Unfortunately he's off-campus at the moment.
A similar thing could be done (optionally) by a local proxy daemon, which got it's info from NWAM (and may NWAM [optionally be able to] obtain it from a WPAD lookup), although there's still the whole "does this cause more problems than it solves"... If there's a hook script, an admin could extract updated proxy info (if NWAM includes it) an update a local page. Of course, then it's not very automagic, but at least it's doable... AFAIK Internet Exploder also uses the wpad approach, since that's our official SOE browser, although Mac and Firefox are also used quite a bit in practice. I suspect any proxy automagic approach is going to be messy if it's to be generally applicable with minimum client app change, with perhaps a few mechanisms able to be configured. Rgds, Stuart. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
