Microsoft (Macro$pend ;-) claims that MSIE is compatible with Netscape's
proxy.pac "spec". Users on this list have had all kinds of problems with
it, though. Apparently MSIE doesn't support most of the more interesting
features of the proxy.pac, and it doesn't always handle the simpler
functions correctly.
At my own sites I run a very stripped-down proxy.pac that does nothing
more than return three proxies (primary, secondary, and the DIRECT) for
HTTP, Gopher, and FTP requests that aren't destined for a local host. I'm
not using any of the nifty subnet fuctions and stuff, and it seems to be
working for me.
Of course all of my MSIE clients are dialup users (all of the real clients
with service contracts get browsers that work right :-), so if they're
having problems that don't result in service outages for them then I
probably won't hear about it.
-Bill
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Graham Somers wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry this is slightly off point but..
>
> Does anyone know if you can do autoconfig of Microsloth browsers
> like you can with Netscape?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Graham
>
> Graham Somers
> Systems Administrator
> ICON Internet
>
Received on Tue Jan 06 1998 - 10:40:27 MST
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