Re: Squid, Proxy.pac, and Mobile Computers.Z

yeah i must say, transparent proxying was a great invention!

except (of course) that it won't work if the proxy puter ain't sitting
between the clients and the rest of the net! ;-) oh well, can't have a
cake and eat it too eh?

ben

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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Robert Dale wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, James A. Mutter wrote:
>
> > Situation B:
> > Same user takes his laptop home, to a foreign office, any place to
> > where he cannot access the proxy server or it is inconvenient to
> > access the proxy server. I don't want the user mucking around in the
> > Netscape preferences changing his settings from "Connect using proxy"
> > to "Direct connection". Will Netscape complain when it can't find the
> > auto-config stored at "http://blah.foo.org/proxy.pac", or can it
> > somehow be configured to ignore the proxy settings when it can't find
> > the .pac?
>
> If you use a transparent proxy, you won't have to have any proxy
> settings at all in netscape. Whether he's behind the firewall or
> on a direct connection, he'll never know (either will netscape ;)
>
> --
> Robert Dale
>
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>
>
Received on Mon Aug 30 1999 - 15:13:15 MDT