James Carlson wrote:
> If Firefox (et al) want to retrieve the DHCP options on Solaris,
> shouldn't they be using dhcpinfo? If they're really sending
> DHCPINFORM, then the whole thing sounds extremely kludgy to me.
I just did an experiment using firefox's auto-detect method in
Solaris. It seems that it does not contact dhcpagent, nor send
out any DHCP message. It just uses the DNS method for WPAD.
If people know more about this, please comment.
> In any event, in the WPAD documents I read, there are two mechanisms
> here: one if by DHCP, and the other if by DNS, and both require
> cooperation of an HTTP server (which, presumably, is also your proxy
> machine).
Yes, that's why I said I was mistaken in the previous mail after
reading the document carefully. HTTP is being used to get the
CFILE. The CURL is supposed to be in the form "HTTP://..." So
the proposal will need to also "act" as a HTTP server.
> I still think that if we're to support WPAD at all, we should just
> make it easy to use. Faking it up to interpose on Firefox's behavior
> seems very likely to end in tears.
If people have a suggestion on how to make WPAD work with NWAM,
please point it out. It helps us a lot. I think it is important
for us to make this work.
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K. Poon.
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