Re: squid and autoconfig

Chris Dillon wrote in message ...

>Your server must return MIME type application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig to
>the client when it requests the .pac file. Add this somewhere in
>Apache's srm.conf:
>
>AddType application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig .pac
>
>IE's autoconfiguration feature uses the exact same proxy autoconfigure
>scripts as Navigator. However, the IE proxy autodiscovery feature
>(note I said "autodiscovery", not "autoconfigure", this is a little
>different) looks for the autoconfig script with a name of wpad.dat
>(assuming you also follow the other criteria for setting up proxy
>autodiscovery). I'm not sure how IE reacts to a wrong MIME-type for
>autoconfig scripts (I refuse to use it, or let anyone use it at my
>site use it, so I haven't bothered testing it), but simply add another
>line to srm.conf just like the above, and replace ".pac" with ".dat"
>to avoid potential problems there, should you use the autodiscovery
>feature at all.

IE5 doesn't require MIME-type for wpad.dat. At least I wrote
MIME-type for .pac only.

Igor Sysoev
Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 01:10:54 MDT