Re: New Squid/comments

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Steve Pinel wrote:

> At 11:44 AM 2/7/98 +0200, Tuomo Pyhala wrote:
> >On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Steve Pinel wrote:
> >
> >> At 02:01 PM 2/6/98 -0600, Brian wrote:
> >
> >> So what I gather from this posting is that I can set up their browsers with
> >> no proxy, and redirect http requests on campus through our proxy at the
> >> router.
> >
> >You could also use a automatic proxy configuration file. It could decide
> >the proxy to use based on current ip (if it is one of campuses ip's, use
> >campuses proxy, otherwise use no proxy...)
> >
> Is there a How-to or document that tells me how to do this? (I'm sure
> there is somewhere).

Read the FAQ:

5.8 How can I make my users' browsers use my cache without configuring the
browsers for proxying?
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-5.html#ss5.8

5.2 Netscape automatic configuration
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-5.html#ss5.2

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