RE: [squid-users] proxy auto configuration

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Tanner
Adam, I was just wondering if anybody could tell me how I'd go about making my proxy auto-detectable by Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. I have read the FAQ on the subject and classed it as slightly outdated due to the fact that it talks about MSIE 3.0 on Windows 3.1. Read the

Re: [squid-users] proxy auto configuration

2006-01-03 Thread Adam
Read the information here: http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html It looks quite old, but it's still correct. However, you want a web server called wpad.domain.local, and rather than a proxy.pac file, you'll want to host a wpad.dat file on it. Hi again, Few

Re: [squid-users] proxy auto configuration

2006-01-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi again, Few things I don't fully understand. When you a web server called wpad.domain.local, do you mean that that hostname has to resolve to an IP on my network? And also just out of interest, does anybody know if it's possible for squid to act as a transparent proxy? How transparent do you

Re: [squid-users] proxy auto configuration

2006-01-03 Thread Adam
How transparent do you want it to be? Transparent to the client and/or transparent to the webserver. Transparent to the client (although I do want to be able to bypass it)